{"product_id":"the-lost-empire-of-emanuel-nobel-by-douglas-brunt-9781668074749","title":"The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInstant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy did one of the world’s most successful business titans, an oil magnate who rivalled the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, disappear from history? The author of the acclaimed bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel\u003c\/i\u003e has the enthralling answer.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the exception of the tsar, Emanuel Nobel was likely the wealthiest man in early 20th-century Russia, and one of the wealthiest in the world. Over three generations, he and his family grew the Russian petroleum industry into a behemoth that surpassed even John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. The Nobels imported the best practices from America and improved on them, transforming every aspect of the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough Emanuel’s uncle Alfred would become world-famous thanks to his creation of the Nobel Prize, the even more successful Nobels in Russia have been largely forgotten. The reason why is one of history’s most gripping untold stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorking in the oil fields of southern Russia at the same time as Emanuel was a troubled young man from a peasant family in Georgia. Though educated to be a priest, he took a different path when he discovered the revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx. In and out of prison in Siberia, charismatic and committed, always at the centre of a fight, this young man would become known to the world as Joseph Stalin, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and eventually one of the most brutal dictators in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDirectly in Stalin’s crosshairs was Emanuel Nobel, who represented everything Stalin despised about capitalism. As the world turned upside down, Emanuel began to plan a life-or-death escape from Russia. But would he make it out in time? And what would be the fate of the immense empire he and his family had built?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSweeping across more than a hundred years of history, from the dawn of the Victorian Age to World War I to the Russian Revolution and beyond, this captivating book chronicles one of the most influential men in history, a man whose name has been stricken from memory, and returns him thrillingly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47745320681708,"sku":"9781668074749","price":74.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781668074749-the-lost-empire-of-emanuel-nobel.jpg?v=1781500376","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-lost-empire-of-emanuel-nobel-by-douglas-brunt-9781668074749","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}