Tabla de Contenidos: “…The eve of war -- Blitzkrieg and oil -- Octane and the Battle of Britain -- Russian oil : the German key -- The Russian campaign -- Japan's search for oil -- Breaking the American supply line -- Mideast oil and the Mediterranean -- Japan's oil gains -- America's fountain of oil -- Germany bleeds for oil : the Caucasus and Stalingrad -- Command of the Pacific sea-lanes -- The defeat of Rommel -- The Allied oil offensive -- The Western Front -- Final destruction of Germany's fuel sources -- Germany's final offensive and collapse : from the Battle of the Bulge to V-E Day -- Japan's sinking fortunes -- Oil in future wars…”

“…Bennis' life and career have traversed eight decades of first-hand experience with tumultuous episodes of recent history-from Jewish child in a gentile town in the 30's, a young army recruit in the Battle of the Bulge to a college student in the one of the first progressive precursors to the civil rights movement to a patient undergoing daily psychoanalysis for five years, and later a university provost during the Vietnam protests. …”
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“…He published biographies of American and English figures of political, cultural and military significance, including Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia, Whistler, Beardsley, Queen Victoria (which reached #1 on The Times of London bestseller list), Prince Albert, King Edward VII, Disraeli, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshall and FDR; he wrote histories covering aspects of the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Korean War, and he wrote a series of books about wartime Christmases, including Washington getting home for Christmas in 1783, Sherman reaching Savannah for Christmas in 1864, the Christmas Truce of 1914, Christmas at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, and a military escape from Korea at Christmas in 1950.…”