Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2025-09-05
Dwarkesh Patel & Sarah Paine: books mentioned on Dwarkesh Podcast (Sep 2025)
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
In this lecture, military historian Sarah Paine explains how Britain used sea control, peripheral campaigns, and alliances to defeat Nazi Germany during WWII.
Dwarkesh Patel discussed The Prize by Daniel Yergin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Prize
The Prize by Daniel Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical account exploring the central role that energy, particularly oil, has played in global power, geopolitics, and international conflict for over a century.
Discussed“Last year, I interviewed Daniel Yergin, who wrote this big history of oil. He has like 300 pages about World War II in his book and specifically claims that Barbarossa was motivated by Hitler's desire to get the oil fields.”
Where to get it
