The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World

From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world’s most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, whose empire was shattered by the Russian Revolution. Douglas Brunt tells the extraordinary story of Emanuel Nobel, who built one of the greatest industrial enterprises of the nineteenth century and a giant oil company that rivaled Rockefeller’s, only to see it all destroyed in their fatal collision with Joseph Stalin and the Russian Revolution.