{"product_id":"blood-oil-and-the-axis-the-allied-resistance-against-a-fascist-state-in-iraq-and-the-levant-1941","title":"John Broich: Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941 [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpring 1941 was a high point for the Axis war machine. Western Europe\u003cbr\u003e was conquered; southeastern Europe was falling, Great Britain on its \u003cbr\u003eheels; and Rommel's Afrika Korps was freshly arrived to drive on the \u003cbr\u003eall-important Suez Canal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBlood, Oil and the Axis\u003c\/em\u003e, historian John Broich tells the \u003cbr\u003estory of Iraq and the Levant during this most pivotal time of the war. \u003cbr\u003eThe browbeaten Allied forces had one last remaining hope for turning the\u003cbr\u003e war in their favor: the Axis running through its fuel supply. But when \u003cbr\u003ethe Golden Square-four Iraqi generals allegiant to the Axis cause-staged\u003cbr\u003e a coup in Iraq, elevating a pro-German junta and prompting military \u003cbr\u003ecooperation between Vichy French-occupied Syria and Lebanon and the \u003cbr\u003eAxis, disaster loomed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood, Oil and the Axis\u003c\/em\u003e follows those who participated in \u003cbr\u003ethe Allies' frantic, improvised, and unlikely response to this dire \u003cbr\u003ethreat: Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs, Australians, American and \u003cbr\u003eBritish soldiers, Free French Foreign Legionnaires, and Jewish \u003cbr\u003ePalestinians, all who shared a desperate, bloody purpose in quashing the\u003cbr\u003e formation of an Axis state in the Middle East. Memorable figures of \u003cbr\u003ethis makeshift alliance include Jack Hasey, a young American who ran off\u003cbr\u003e to fight with the Free French Foreign Legion before his own country \u003cbr\u003eentered the war; Freya Stark, a famous \u003cbr\u003etravel-writer-turned-government-agent; and even Roald Dahl, a \u003cbr\u003etwenty-three-year-old Royal Air Force recruit (and future author of \u003cbr\u003ebeloved children's books).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking the reader on a tour of cities and landscapes grimly familiar \u003cbr\u003eto today's reader-from a bombed-out Fallujah, to Baghdad, to Damascus-\u003cem\u003eBlood, Oil and the Axis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e is poised to become the definitive chronicle of the Axis's menacing \u003cbr\u003eplay for Iraq and the Levant in 1941 and the extraordinary alliance that\u003cbr\u003e confronted it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broich, John","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42126756053177,"sku":"9781468313994","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/broich-john-john-broich-blood-oil-and-the-axis-the-allied-resistance-against-a-fascist-state-in-iraq-and-the-levant-1941-2019-hardback-9781468313994-60046933819731.jpg?v=1731564308","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/blood-oil-and-the-axis-the-allied-resistance-against-a-fascist-state-in-iraq-and-the-levant-1941","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}