The Iran-Iraq war : the greatest land war of the late twentieth century /
"The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest and longest conventional conflicts of the twentieth century - and one that, accidentally, created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. The origins of the conflict and how Saddam Hussein decided to invade; how the hamstrung Iraqi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Warwick :
Helion and Company,
2022.
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| Series: | Middle East@war.
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| Summary: | "The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest and longest conventional conflicts of the twentieth century - and one that, accidentally, created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. The origins of the conflict and how Saddam Hussein decided to invade; how the hamstrung Iraqi Army was able to conquer only a narrow strip of territory of Iran's southern province of Khuzestan; the constantly growing Iranian counteroffensives that first recovered Khuzestan before invading Iraq and nearly breaking the back of its armed forces; the warfare between Iran and Iraq on the Central and Northern Fronts, and final Iraqi victories that forced Iran into accepting a UN-mediated cease-fire." |
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| Physical Description: | 415 pages : illustrations (color and black and white), maps (chiefly color) ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781804511565 1804511560 |