Tom Kirkman

How Oil Defeated The Nazis

Recommended Posts

(edited)

@Tom Kirkman Tom excellent topic and relevant to last weeks amazing coverage of the D-Day landings and how that “special relationship” has endured.

I personally have a huge interest in the NSGWP (National Socialist German Workers Party), not political purely historical and the logistics involved and how one country organized itself and to this day we only know so much about them as its affairs were so well documented and detailed.

If you haven read it check out Blood Oil and the Axis and excellent read.

https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/blood-oil-and-the-axis/

7B9C027D-07B4-4AA9-8B68-8575BB570CCF.jpeg

Edited by James Regan
  • Upvote 1

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

5 minutes ago, James Regan said:

@Tom Kirkman Tom excellent topic and relevant to last weeks amazing coverage of the D-Day landings and how that “special relationship” has endured.

I personally have a huge interest in the NSGWP (National Socialist German Workers Party), not political purely historical and the logistics involved and how one country organized itself and to this day we only know so much about them as its affairs were so well documented and detailed.

If you haven read it check out Blood Oil and the Axis and excellent read.

https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/blood-oil-and-the-axis/

7B9C027D-07B4-4AA9-8B68-8575BB570CCF.jpeg

Thanks James, that looks interesting.

Also recommended:

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin.

Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis.

Review

"Spellbinding...irresistible...monumental...must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history." -- The New York Times 

  • Upvote 1

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

(edited)

I seem to remember first reading about this in "The Prize" by Daniel Yergin. It seemed that the Nazis relied too much on mostly Romanian crude oil and synthetic crude oil from coal while the Japanese relied too much on Indonesian crude oil. I thoroughly enjoyed his book and how he related a lot of history and historical events chronologically with its relation to crude oil.  The only criticism that I found with his book was how little of it was devoted to Canada and its crude oil history given that Canada was one of the U.S.A.'s biggest suppliers of crude oil.  It is the type of book that once you start reading it is very hard to put down because you want to keep on reading about what comes next.

Edited by canadas canadas

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, please sign in.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.