British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement

by Black, Edwin

• ISBN13: 9780914153153
• ISBN10: 0914153153
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-16
• Publisher: Dialog Pr

Summary

How did the West get Middle East Oil? The tense chronicle of the international deceit and strong-arm tactics of men, oil companies and government is laid out in a revealing minute-to-minute drama. Massive research supports this unforgettable revelation by a master of corporate investigation--author Edwin Black.

Author Biography

Edwin Black is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling and international investigative author of 80 editions in 14 languages in 61 countries, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in the leading publications of the United States, Europe, and Israel. With more than a million books in print, his work focuses on genocide and hate, corporate criminality and corruption, governmental misconduct, academic fraud, philanthropy abuse, oil addiction, alternative energy, and historical investigation. Editors have submitted Black's work ten times for Pulitzer Prize nomination, and in recent years, he has been the recipient of a series of top editorial awards. His best known book is IBM and the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Introduction/Acknowledgments	p. vi
Flaming Waters	p. 3
Birth of the Oil Age	p. 7
Dueling Monopolies	p. 21
Mr. Five Percent	p. 41
The Fuse Ignites	p. 57
Blood for Oil	p. 65
Proclamation	p. 85
Inventing Iraq	p. 89
The Petroleum of Peace	p. 103
Oil and the 1920 Jihad	p. 119
The Red Line	p. 145
Nazi Oil	p. 171
British Petroleum	p. 203
Notes	p. 221
Major Sources	p. 251
Index	p. 261
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