01663nam a22002417a 4500 20260114162533.0 260114b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781037203923 AL English 940.53 HIGM Nick Higham 251335 Mavericks : empire oil revolution and the forgotten battle of world war one London Bloomsbury Publishing 2025 x,342p. PB 23.5x15.5cm. 5464 ₹639.00 ₹ ₹799.00 20% 10-01-2026 The forgotten story of a group of British mavericks who took on an impossible mission with a daring and fearless approach. As the First World War drew to a close and regimes began to collapse across Europe, British officials plotted a daring campaign to send an unlikely band of maverick soldiers, diplomats and spies to the chaotic region around the Caspian Sea. Their mission: to block the advance of the Turks, to hold back the rising Bolsheviks and prevent a Turkish-inspired jihad overwhelming India, and to secure the vital supply of oil from Baku. Drawing on personal diaries, memoirs and once-secret government archives, Mavericks brings to life a cast of eccentric heroes who survived against all odds to tell their extraordinary tales. This is a propulsive story of boldness and intrigue, set in a forgotten corner of the Great War where the rules were made to be broken. Military History 251336 Imperial Strategy and Geopolitics 251337 Collapse of Empires and Revolution 251338 Oil and Strategic Resources 251339 ddc BK 240754 240754 0 0 ddc 0 0 PS AL AL SK 2026-01-13 Biblios Book Point, Surathkal-575014 639.00 0 940.53 HIGM 078023 2026-01-14 16:03:53 799.00 2026-01-10 BK