Title: Persian Gulf Command
Description: 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.
Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, middle east, World War, 1939-1945, Campaigns, Iran, Iraq, Persia, World War 2, Middle Eastern Monarchy
Places: Iraq, Iran, Tehran, Baghdad, Abadan, Former USSR, United Kingdom, British Empire and Commonwealth, Imperial Iran
People: Reza Shah Pahlavi Shah of Iran (1878-1944), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran (1919-1980), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Winston Churchill Sir (1874-1965), William Slim Slim Viscount (1891-1972), Faiṣal I King of Irāq (1885-1933), Ṣabbāgh, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (1894-1945), Claude Auchinleck Sir, Archibald Percival Wavell Wavell Earl of (1883-1950)
Time periods: World war 2