Iraq
Subtitle: from Sumer to Saddam
By: Geoff Simons ; foreword by Tony Benn.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Iraq -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-417 ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Iraq in the new world order.  After the 1991 Gulf War; title: The history of Iraq.  The ancient crucible ; The Arabs, Islam and the Caliphate ; Seljuks, Mongols and Ottomans ; The western impact ; From Monarchy to Republic ; Into the era of Saddam; title: Towards the new world order.  War with the West.