Three Kings in Baghdad, 1921-1958. [Faisal I, Ghazi, and Faisal II, the First Three Rulers of Iraq. With Portraits, a Map, a Genealogical Table and a Bibliography.].
Title | Three Kings in Baghdad, 1921-1958. [Faisal I, Ghazi, and Faisal II, the First Three Rulers of Iraq. With Portraits, a Map, a Genealogical Table and a Bibliography.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Simpson Hillairet Rutland Vere De Gaury |
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Pages | 232 |
Release | 1961 |
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Three Kings in Baghdad, 1921-1958
Title | Three Kings in Baghdad, 1921-1958 PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald De Gaury |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Iraq |
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Three Kings in Baghdad
Title | Three Kings in Baghdad PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald De Gaury |
Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2008-03-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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The first king of Iraq, Faisal I, was installed by the British in 1921 - he was pro-British, and was thus deemed 'suitable' to lead an independent Iraq. But his successors - his son Ghazi and Faisal II - both met their demise in suspicious and bloody manners. This book is a unique and timely account of Iraqi history.
Three Kings
Title | Three Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd C. Gardner |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2011-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1459617754 |
Three Kings reveals a story of America's scramble for political influence, oil concessions, and a new military presence based on airpower and generous American aid to shaky regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Iraq. Marshaling new and revelatory evidence from the archives, Lloyd Gardner deftly weaves together three decades of U.S. moves in the region to offer the first history of America's efforts to supplant the British empire in the Middle East. From the early efforts to support and influence the Saudi regime (including the creation of Dhahranairbase, the target of Osama bin Laden's first terrorist attack in 1996) and the CIA-engineered coup in Iran to Nasser's Egypt and, finally, the rise of Iraq as a major petroleum power, Three Kings is ''a valuable contribution to our understanding of our still-deepening involvement in this region'' (Booklist).As American policy makers and military planners grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, Gardner uncovers the largely hidden story of how the United States got into the Middle East in the first place.
3 Kings in Baghdad 1921-1958
Title | 3 Kings in Baghdad 1921-1958 PDF eBook |
Author | gerald de gravry |
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Release | 1961 |
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Three Kings
Title | Three Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd Gardner |
Publisher | New Press, The |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1595585338 |
As American policy makers ponder a strategy for withdrawal from Iraq, one of our preeminent diplomatic historians uncovers the largely hidden story of how the United States got into the Middle East in the first place. A breathtaking recovery of decisions taken, brazen motives, and backroom dealings, Three Kings is the first history of America's efforts to supplant the British empire in the Middle East, during and following World War II. From F.D.R. to L.B.J.,this is the story of America's scramble for political influence, oil concessions, and a new military presence based on airpower and generous American aid to shaky regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Iraq. Marshaling new and revelatory evidence from the archives, Gardner deftly weaves together three decades of U.S. moves in the region, chronicling the early efforts to support and influence the Saudi regime (including the creation of Dhahran air base, the target of Osama bin Laden's first terrorist attack in 1996), the CIA-engineered coup in Iran, Nasser's Egypt, and, finally, the rise of Iraq as a major petroleum power. Here, the tangled threads of oil, U.S. military might, Western commercial interests, and especially the Israel-Palestine question are visible from the very beginning of “The American Century”—a history with frightening relevance for the distant prospect of peace and stability in the region today.
A History of Iraq
Title | A History of Iraq PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Tripp |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2002-05-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521529006 |
This updated edition of Charles Tripp's A History of Iraq covers events since 1998, and looks at present-day developments right up to mid-2002. Since its establishment by the British in the 1920s Iraq has witnessed the rise and fall of successive regimes, culminating in the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Tripp traces Iraq's political history from its nineteenth-century roots in the Ottoman empire, to the development of the state, its transformation from monarchy to republic and the rise of the Ba'th party and the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein.