Off to the sidelines of the brutal western front of World War I was
a nasty little campaign by British and India troops sent to secure
Persian oil fields. Explaining what and how this happened in the
early decades of the twentieth century goes beyond being just
another history of a distant campaign in the 1914 to 1918 war. The
highs and lows of what many British military planners in London
considered to be a minor campaign in a distant theatre of
operations proved to be a long, costly conflict the results of
which still influence events today. Oil and the Creation of Iraq
describes how the policies of allied military leaders of the time
resulted in pushing the Ottoman government into partnership with
Germany and Austria during World War I, resulting in its
disintegration and loss of its Middle Eastern territories. The book
then describes how the political and economic aims of the nations
involved in the Mesopotamian campaign influenced the fighting and
subsequent creation of Iraq, a new nation with few defensible
boundaries, but one sitting atop an almost inexhaustible supply of
oil and gas.
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