The Run For The Baku Oil Fields I THE GREAT WAR Week 205

The Great War, week 205: the run for the Baku oil fields as the Ottoman Army of Islam marches on the Caspian (August 1918).

Episode 205 of the English-language channel The Great War, which narrates the First World War week by week, covers August 1918, when the Ottoman Army of Islam was marching on Baku and the Caspian Sea while British Dunsterforce, the Bolsheviks, Germany and local forces competed for Baku's oil. It is widely viewed popular-history content that places the campaign in the context of the global war.