{"product_id":"blood-oil-the-axis-the-allied-resistance-against-a-fascist-state","title":"Blood, Oil \u0026 the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State","description":"Spring 1941 was a high point for the Axis war machine. Western Europe\n was conquered; southeastern Europe was falling, Great Britain on its \nheels; and Rommel's Afrika Korps was freshly arrived to drive on the \nall-important Suez Canal.\n\n\nIn Blood, Oil and the Axis, historian John Broich tells the \nstory of Iraq and the Levant during this most pivotal time of the war. \nThe browbeaten Allied forces had one last remaining hope for turning the\n war in their favor: the Axis running through its fuel supply. But when \nthe Golden Square-four Iraqi generals allegiant to the Axis cause-staged\n a coup in Iraq, elevating a pro-German junta and prompting military \ncooperation between Vichy French-occupied Syria and Lebanon and the \nAxis, disaster loomed.\n\n\nBlood, Oil and the Axis follows those who participated in \nthe Allies' frantic, improvised, and unlikely response to this dire \nthreat: Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs, Australians, American and \nBritish soldiers, Free French Foreign Legionnaires, and Jewish \nPalestinians, all who shared a desperate, bloody purpose in quashing the\n formation of an Axis state in the Middle East. Memorable figures of \nthis makeshift alliance include Jack Hasey, a young American who ran off\n to fight with the Free French Foreign Legion before his own country \nentered the war; Freya Stark, a famous \ntravel-writer-turned-government-agent; and even Roald Dahl, a \ntwenty-three-year-old Royal Air Force recruit (and future author of \nbeloved children's books).\n\n\nTaking the reader on a tour of cities and landscapes grimly familiar \nto today's reader-from a bombed-out Fallujah, to Baghdad, to Damascus-Blood, Oil and the Axis\n is poised to become the definitive chronicle of the Axis's menacing \nplay for Iraq and the Levant in 1941 and the extraordinary alliance that\n confronted it.","brand":"Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardback","offer_id":39278542028885,"sku":"9781468313994N","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9781468313994.jpg?v=1615803877","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/blood-oil-the-axis-the-allied-resistance-against-a-fascist-state","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}