The Iran-Iraq War: Volume 1, the Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982
E.R. Hooton,Tom Cooper,Farzin Nadimi
The Iran-Iraq War: Volume 1, the Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982
E.R. Hooton,Tom Cooper,Farzin Nadimi
The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th Century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict but this is the first detailed military history using materials from both sides, as well as materials obtained from US Intelligence circles and British Governmental archives. It provides a unique insight into a war which began through miscalculation and rapidly escalated into the longest conventional conflict in the post Second World War era. The first volume looks at the background and describes in detail how Saddam Hussein decided to invade but hamstrung the Iraqi Army to restrict its greatest success to a narrow strip of territory in Iran’s southern province of Khuzestan. This left the Iraqis unable either to advance or withdraw and exposed them to ever greater and more successful Iranian counter-strokes which drove them out in May 1982 in the ferocious Battle of Khorramshahr. AUTHORS: E.R. Hooton is a successful retired defence journalist, including acting as a Jane’s Yearbook editor.
Tom Cooper is an Austrian aerial warfare analyst and historian.
Farzin Nadimi is a writer and researcher of the Middle Eastern and Persian Gulf defense and security affairs, with a focus on Iran-Iraq War military history, energy security and geopolitics, economic warfare, and oil and gas industries.
120 photographs, 15 artworks, 5-6 maps & 4-5 diagrams
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