: empire oil revolution and the forgotten battle of world war one Nick Higham creator text London Bloomsbury Publishing 2025 monographic eng Eng lis h

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x,342p. PB 23.5x15.5cm. 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 Imperial Strategy and Geopolitics Collapse of Empires and Revolution Oil and Strategic Resources 940.53 HIGM 9781037203923 260114 20260114162533.0