# The Oil and the Glory

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- Book: [The Oil and the Glory](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-levine/the-oil-and-the-glory) ([The Oil and the Glory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-levine/the-oil-and-the-glory.md))
- Authors: [Steve LeVine](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-levine)
- Publisher: Random House
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-8836-646-7
- Published: 2007-10-23
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn’t get to it. Then the Soviet Union...