Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS viii
4. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x
5. Map of Iran and Iraq in the Second World War xiv
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. 1. Iran, Iraq and the great powers 4
8. 2. Defending Iran and Iraq 29
9. 3. Towards the Iraqi coup 44
10. 4. Iraq goes to war 66
11. 5. Fallujah and the advance on Baghdad 84
12. 6. Mopping up and de- Nazification 108
13. 7. Barbarossa and Iran 131
14. 8. Anglo-Soviet invasion 150
15. 9. Abdication and occupation 172
16. 10. The consequences of occupation 208
17. 11. War and the home front 235
18. 12. Churchill’s new command 253
19. 13. ‘Jumbo’ and the Germans 266
20. 14. The Persian corridor 294
21. 15. An allied battleground 316
22. 16. War’s end 343
23. ENDNOTES 361
24. SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 397
25. INDEX 407