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EFRAIM KARSH is Professor

and Head of the Mediterranean

Studies Programme at King's

College, University of London.

He has held various academic

posts at the Sorbonne, the

London School of Economics,

Columbia University, Helsinki

University and Tel-Aviv

University. Professor Karsh has

published extensively on Middle

Eastern affairs, Soviet foreign

policy and European neutrality.

PROFESSOR ROBERT O'NEILL,

AO D.Phil. (Oxon), Hon D.

Litt.(ANU), FASSA, FR Hist S,

is the Series Editor of the

Essential Histories. His wealth

of knowledge and expertise

shapes the series content and

provides up-to-the-minute

research and theory. Born in

1936 an Australian citizen, he

served in the Australian army

(1955-68) and has held a

number of eminent positions

in history circles, including

the Chichele Professorship

of the History of War at

All Souls College, University

of Oxford, 1987-2001, and the

Chairmanship of the Board of

the Imperial War Museum and

the Council of the International

Institute for Strategic Studies,

London. He is the author of

many books including works

on the German Army and the

Nazi party, and the Korean and

Vietnam wars. Now based in

Australia on his retirement from

Oxford, he is the Chairman of

the Council of the Australian

Strategic Policy Institute.

Essential Histories

The Iran-Iraq War

1980-1988

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Contents

Introduction

Chronology

Background to war

The quest for the empire of God

Warring sides

Strengths and weaknesses of Iran and Iraq

Outbreak

Invasion and after 22

The fighting

The delicate balance of incompetence

Portrait of a soldier

Iran's boy soldiers

The world around war

Nations at war 66

Portrait of a civilian

Death of a village

How the war ended

The poisoned chalice 79

Conclusion and consequences

A costly exercise in futility

Essential Histories 020 - The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988.pdf

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