This book has a Foreword by Professor Sir Hew Strachan.
The author argues in this book that, beginning with the First World War, oil became the pre-eminent commodity to safeguard national security and provide domestic prosperity.
For the first time in history, territory was specifically conquered to seize oil fields and resources, vital cogs in the continuation of the industrialized warfare of the Twentieth Century.
This original and pioneering study analyses the evolution of oil as a catalyst for both war and diplomacy, and connects the events of the First World War to contemporary petroleum geopolitics and international aggression.
This is what makes this book important for the Collection.