Author: Wesseling, Louis
Title: Fuelling the War: Revealing an Oil Company's Role in Vietnam
Description: London / New York, I.B. Tauris Publishers, (2000). orig.boards. 24x16cm, viii,207 pp. Textual map. Minor rubbing. Binding corner bumps. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Memoirs of the Chief Executive of Shell Vietnam, 1972-75. Contents: Year of the Mouse: Keepers of the Grail: Shell Centre; Who Are These Vietnamese?An Historical Point of View; Handover in Saigon: First Warnings; War Risks: The Northern Military Regiob & the Rung Sat Swamps; The Red Files: Hidden Truths; Saigon Hostess; A Vietnamese Labour Dispute & a Skeleton in the Closet at Nha Be; Peace Negotiations in Paris: Economic Warfare in Vietnam; A Tanker Under Attack; The Price of War: An Estimate of Outside Economic Support to the Belligerents; Year of the Buffalo: Peace Celebrations; Leopard Spots; South China Sea: The First Oil Exploration Contract; Organised Theft & a Dinner; Another Attack on Nha Be; Resignation of a High Flyer; The Flower of American Generaliship; Cambodian Operetta & Black Tragedy; The Laotian Dream; Vietnam Highland Defenses; Year of the Tiger: The 1973 Oil Crisis; Nha Be Installation on Fire: A Phoenix; Singapore Oil Embargo; The Chinese Navy in Action; Ben Cat: A Battle in Which Each Side Gains; Vung Tau Beach; Farewell Vietnam; Year of the Cat: Back in the Centre; Peaceful Europe; A Chinese Encoutner, My Return Ticket; Epilogue.

Keywords: Vietnam War, Shell Oil Company, Business History, Politics Political, Military, Southeast Asia, , ,