The Prize

About this book

• Causes
• History
• Military aspects
• Petroleum industry and trade
• Political aspects
• World War, 1914-1918
• World War, 1939-1945
• World politics

Reader reviews

• Josh80/100

  In its 800 pages The Prize begins to get a bit repetitive. This isn't strictly Yergin's fault - the history of the oil industry is itself repetitive. Still, from a reader's perspective it's not particularly edifying to spend ten pages on yet another story of gritty oil men who defied standard wisdom to drill in a place nobody thought had oil and then struck - you guessed it - oil! It was amusing…

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