The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression
The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988
The Iran-Iraq War, which ended in August 1988, one month short of its eighth anniversary, was one of the longest, bloodiest and costliest third world...
A History of Modern Iran
In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil,...
Gulf Air War 1991
In 1961 the United Kingdom granted formal independence to the protectorate of Kuwait, which then became the Emirate of Kuwait. This small but oil-ric...
Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance
When U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for twenty-three years. Yet in their attempts to understand I...
Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces
"Immortal" is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history. CIA analyst Steven R. Ward shows that Iran's soldiers, from t...