Timothy C. Winegard holds a PhD. from the University of Oxford. He served nine years as an officer in the Canadian and British Forces. Dr. Winegard teaches history and political science at Colorado Mesa University.

Sir Hew Strachan FRSE is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He was Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford from 2002 to 2015.

Foreword by Sir Hew Strachan

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Author’s Note: On Words

Introduction

Chapter 1: Oil and the Great Game

Chapter 2: Petroleum and Pipeline Politics

Chapter 3: The Last Crusade in the Middle East

Chapter 4: The Black Blood of Victory

Chapter 5: The Deployment of Dunsterforce

Chapter 6: Basra to Baghdad to Baku

Chapter 7: The Battle for Baku

Chapter 8: Peace and Petroleum

Chapter 9: Oil and the New Great Game

Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix: Petroleum Situation in the British Empire, Admiral Sir Edmond J.W. Slade, 29 July 1918.

Bibliography

Endnotes

Index