Shell in WWII, Vietnam

[Doug Millison]

For those readers who might see the Vietnam War in GR, and GR itself 
a novel of its times as well as a novel in an historical WWII setting 
that to a certain degree pivots on the shift from Industrial 
Revolution technologies to petrochemicals and aerospace, this new 
book sounds interesting:

Fuelling the War : Revealing an Oil Company's Role in Vietnam
by Louis Wesseling

240 pages (May 2000)
I B Tauris & Co Ltd; ISBN: 1860644570

"The explosive story of how oil played a key role in Vietnam
For the last three years of the Vietnam War, the author of this book 
was Chief Executive of Shell Vietnam. As such he controlled half the 
country's oil supply which was purchased by the Americans, used by 
the South Vietnamese,fought for by the Vietcong and often supplied to 
the North Vietnamese and Vietcong armies through indirect channels. 
The book is his account of the role of oil in that war. The action 
takes place mainly in Saigon among ambassadors, generals, 
politicians, bankers, businessmen, CIA agents, spies and hustlers. 
Wesseling recounts the behind-the-scenes manipulation and skulduggery 
which formed a little-known part of the Vietnam War."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1860644570/qid%3D968213557/002-7212380-3647236

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