The oil must flow

From: The Scotsman | Date: February 25, 2003| Author: George Kerevan | Copyright information

In the desert wastes of northern Iraq a secret battle is fought to control the world's oil supplies. But the year is not 2003. It is 1941, six months before Pearl Harbor. Heinkel bombers of Hitler's Luftwaffe, painted in the markings of the pro-Nazi Iraqi airforce, streak across the desert to attack British forces defending the oil pipelines on which the Allied war effort depends. The first German and Italian troops are in Baghdad. Submarines of the Imperial Japanese navy are probing the entr...

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