В отечественной историографии принято написание Абд аль-Азиз (Абд аль-Азиз ибн-Сауд); в художественной литературе и СМИ встречается также Абдул-Азиз. – Прим. ред.
О захвате Эр-Рияда Абдель-Азизом так много говорили при дворе короля, что история почти превратилась в миф. Изложенная в данной книге версия основана на пересказах, взятых из множества источников, включая следующие: D. Van Der Meulen, The Wells of Ibn Saud (New York: Praeger, 1957), 44–53, David Howarth, The Desert King: A Life of Ibn Saud (London: Collins, 1964), 11–23, Robert Lacey, The Kingdom: Arabia & The House of Sa’ud, (New York: Avon, 1981), 41–51, and David Holden and Richard Johns, The House of Saud (London: Pan Books, 1981), 3–7.
David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1989), 108.
“A Mystery War,” Boston Daily Globe, September 24, 1924.
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, “The mysterious Saudi prince leading the war in Yemen,” Week, April 6, 2015, http://theweek.com/articles/548188/mysterious-saudi-prince-leading-war-yemen.
Fareed Zakaria, “Why Saudi Arabia can’t get a nuclear weapon,” Washington Post, June 11, 2015.
“Saudi Arabia is considering an IPO of Aramco, probably the world’s most valuable company,” Economist, January 7, 2016.
“Memorandum of Conversation with Saudi Finance Minister Regarding Aramco,” General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), (hereafter abbreviated as RG 59, NA) 886A.2553/7–653.
Abdullah Jumah, 60 Minutes: The Oil Kingdom, produced by Richard Bonin and Kathy Lui (2008: CBS Broadcasting Inc.), DVD.
Holden and Johns, 106.
Holden and Johns, 107.
Thomas C. Barger, Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia 1930–1940 (California: Selwa Press, 2000), 104.
J. Rives Childs, Foreign Service Farewell: My Years in the Near East (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969), 139.
Anthony Cave Brown, Oil, God, and Gold (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999), 48.
Tim Barger, interview with the author, June 1, 2017.
Lacey, The Kingdom, 239.
Tim Barger, interview with the author, June 1, 2017.
“Americans Get Oil Concession in Arabia; Transformation of Desert Life May Result,” The New York Times (New York, NY), July 15, 1933.
Standard Oil of California, Desert Venture, produced by Robert Yarnall Richie, 1948.
http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/01049.xml.
http://www.chevron.com/about/history/1927/.
Wallace Stegner, “Discovery! The Story of Aramco Then,” Aramco World, 19:1, 1998. http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/196801/ discovery.the.story.of.aramco.then-chapter.1.contact.htm.
Aileen Keating, Mirage (New York: Prometheus Books, 2005).
Daniel Yergin, The Prize (New York: Free Press, 2009), 273. [Ергин Д. Добыча. Всемирная история борьбы за нефть, деньги и власть. – М.: Альпина Паблишер, 2017.]
Lacey, The Kingdom, 236, 237.
Anthony Sampson, The Seven Sisters: The 100-year battle for the world’s oil supply, (New York: Bantnam Books, 1991), 111.
Holden and Johns 67.
Tom Carver, “Diary,” London Review of Books (34:19), October 11, 2002, 42–43.
Holden and Johns 119.
Lacey, The Kingdom, 245.
Tim Brady, “Profile of Fred Davies,” The Minnesota, April/March 2006. http://www.minnesotaalumni.org/s/1118/content1.aspx? sid=1118&gid=1&pgid=1500.
Lacey, The Kingdom, 246.
Barger, 15.
Yergin, 281.
Barger, 28.
Barger, 26.
Barger, 29.
Yergin, 281.
Barger, 14.
Yergin, 283.
Holden and Johns, 120. Цифры разнятся в зависимости от источника, но все они свидетельствуют об одном: о росте продуктивности скважины.
Lacey, The Kingdom, 256 и Holden and Johns, 121.
Yergin, 284.
William E. Mulligan, “Air Raid! A Sequel.” Aramco World, 27:4 (1976) 2–3.
Yergin, 285, Thomas Lippman, “The Pioneers,” Aramco World, 55:3 (2004) 14–21, и Wallace Stegner, “The Frontier closes,” Aramco World, 21:4 (1970) 9–21.
Confidential Aramco Memorandum, undated, National Archives, ARC2071559 Box 213 Folder 3, and “Ambassador Childs to the Secretary of State,” December 4, 1947, RG 59, NA, 890F.00/12–447.