"I should like to see "Fuelling the War" as standard reading in the staff colleges of nations whose strategy envisions armed intervention."
Admiral of the fleet, Sir Edward Ashmore, GCB, London.

"I read it in one stretch. Excellent on macro and micro levels of economics in wartime. Sensitive description of people and country. Objective description of the Shell Group."
G.A. Wagner, ex-Chairman Royal Dutch Shell, the Hague.

"In a gripping narrative Wesseling provides a fascinating new take on the 20th century's most tortured military conflict...The scale of Shell's involvement is difficult to exagerate...Trading of vital commodities between warring parties became more important that trading bullets."
Jeremy Grant. The Financial Times, London.

"A book about oil, corruption and about love. You don't read such storiesvery often.."
J. Koelewijn. NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam.

"An interesting sidelight on the period 1972-1975 when South Vietnam continued to fight without American help."
Richard West. The Spectator, London.

"A multinational in the war zone. A compelling account. The reader finds himself in the wide open spaces of the Mekong delta, or on the coctail circuit of Saigon. Behind entertaining diversions looms the dark issue of the morality of fuelling the conflict by multinationals, of which Shell was the largest".
Judith Dwarkin. Geopolitics of Energy, Washington.

"A perspective that has so far been missing from the vast Vietnam litterature."
Publishers Weekly. New York.

"A terrific book (notwithstanding its unassuming title) which appeals onmany different levels. A compelling writer with the uncanny ability to sum up the essence of a situation, scene, or even a country in just a few short lines."
Jamieod. Amazon, Hongkong.

"Obligatory reading for decision makers of the US sponsored anti-drugs war in Columbia, to help them avoid the pitfalls of the similar war in Vietnam."
M. Perez Badell. Opinion, Caracas.

"One of the most interesting personal accounts of life in the oil industrythat this reviewer has read in a long time. Written with a keen understanding of strategic and tactical issues..Accounts are brief and pithy, sometimes devastatingly so. Of great interest to watchers of Shell, that ideosyncratic great corporation".
Juan Carlos Boué. Journal of Energy Litterature, Oxford.

"A deep insight into the role of Oil in a bizarre War situation."
Klaas Broekhuizen, Het Financiele Dagblad, Amsterdam.

"Evocative image of the desperate Vietnam war. Corruption sometimes has a social function".
Hans Crooijmans. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

"Contradictions and ironies of war. Rarely has an insider treated us to this level of information."
Robert K. Brigham. Pacific Affairs, British Columbia, Canada.

"Recreating the almost decadent ambiance of Saigon before the fall... A large cast of (mostly shady) characters.."
Kevin Ruance. Journal of Contemporary History, London.