Targeting Hitler's Oil: Spies, Saboteurs, and the Secret War for Oil in World War II

The German war machine— its screaming dive-bombers, its thundering tanks, its prowling U-boats— needed oil to fuel its rampage across Europe and in the Atlantic. But lacking its own natural supplies, Germany had to look elsewhere. It seized the oil fields and refineries of Romania and hungrily eyed the Caucasus and Middle East. Meanwhile, the Allies began a secret campaign of sabotage to deny the Third Reich these precious oil resources. Full of larger-than-life characters and episodes as h...