The Iran-Iraq War

✍ Scribed by Pierre Razoux; Nicholas Elliott

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 686
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From 1980 to 1988 Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the century. It included tragic slaughter of child soldiers, use of chemical weapons, striking of civilian shipping, and destruction of cities. Pierre Razoux offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region’s collective memory but little understood in the West.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Maps
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Escalation
2. Saddam’s Qadisiyyah
3. How Did It Come to This?
4. Did the United States Push Saddam to Attack?
5. France Sides with Iraq
6. The Arabs Divided
7. Israel Banks on Iran and Turkey Benefits from the War
8. The “Valmy” Effect
9. Stalemate
10. The Initiative Changes Sides
11. The Mullahs Take Power
12. First Victories
13. New Mediation
14. The Iranians Recapture Their Territory
15. Blessed Ramadan Offensive
16. Bloody Dawns
17. Saddam’s Ace in the Hole
18. The Lebanese Hostage Crisis
19. Money Has No Smell
20. Total War
21. The Year of the Pilot
22. Oil and the War Machine
23. The Slaughter of the Child Soldiers
24. Deadlock
25. The Iran-Contra Affair
26. All-Out
Offensives
27. Iran Changes Strategy
28. The Gulf Set Ablaze
29. The Halabja Massacre
30. The Destruction of Iran Air Flight 655
31. Endgame
Epilogue
Appendixes
A. Chronology
B. Iraq and Iran in 1980
C. Military High Command
D. Military Forces
E. Armed Opposition
F. Foreign Military Assistance
G. Oil
H. International Naval Presence in the Gulf
I. War Losses
J. Financial Cost
Notes
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index