During the pivotal World War II battles at El Alamein, the fate of the Mediterranean depended not only on military might, but on something far scarcer: oil. As Rommel’s Afrika Korps fought the British Eighth Army under Montgomery, neither side realized that vast reserves of oil were hidden deep beneath their feet.
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