Oil Burning

Four lectures called: History, Present Theories, Present Forms and Future of Oil buming, were delivered at Delft in April 1934 before members of the ,Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs" (Royal Institute of Engineers - The Hague, Holland) on four afternoons consecutively. Although the subjects discussed are substantially the same, a certain amount of rearrangement was considered desirable for publication while moreover several problems, especially those raised in questions asked after the lectures, have been entered into more fully in this book, which therefore covers a good deal more ground than the actual lecture::.

Written by the author of "Shattered Peace" and "Energy Future", this book brings to life the tycoons, wildcatters, monopolists, regulators, presidents, generals and sheiks whose struggle for oil has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, transformed the destiny of Britain and the world and profoundly changed all our lives. Beginning with the first oil well of the 1850s and continuing up to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, it is a story of greed, gumption nad ingenuity, all in pursuit of "the prize"—worldwide economic, military and political mastery through the control of oil.

Written by the author of "Shattered Peace" and "Energy Future", this book brings to life the tycoons, wildcatters, monopolists, regulators, presidents, generals and sheiks whose struggle for oil has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, transformed the destiny of Britain and the world and profoundly changed all our lives.