WWII Persian Gulf Command

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A year ago I posted that a new book was due out and it is now. From the publisher's website, with some rave reviews:

Anew history of the long-overlooked WWII theater in Iran and Iraq, its unrecognized significance, and its impact on local society and politics.

This dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Contending that these two countries were more important to the Allied forces’ war operations than has ever been acknowledged, historian Ashley Jackson investigates the grand strategy of the Allies and their operations in the region and the continuing legacy of Western intervention in the Middle East.

Iran and Iraq served as the first WWII theater in which the U.S., the U.K., and the U.S.S.R. fought alongside each other. Jackson charts the intense Allied military activity in Iran and Iraq and reveals how deeply the war impacted common people’s lives. He also provides revelations about the true nature of Anglo-American relations in the region, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the continuing corrosive legacy of Western influence in these lands.

Link to US website:https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780...n-gulf-command
Link to UK website:http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?K=9780300221961

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Just spotted via an email circulation that an author, Dr Adrian O'Sullivan, has three books on Iraq and Persia in WW2:

his latest book The Baghdad Set – the first-ever intelligence history of Iraq, 1941-45 – and the final third volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia and Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia. Dr O’Sullivan’s account of covert operations in Iraq during the Second World War is based entirely on archival documents, diaries, and memoirs

Link to author's website:http://adrianosullivan.com/bibliography/