Iran-Iraq War: The Lion Of Babylon, 1980 - 1988

Iran-Iraq War: The Lion Of Babylon, 1980 - 1988 by Anthony Tucker-Jones


Authors
Anthony Tucker-Jones
ISBN
9781526728579
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
136
Dimensions
156 x 234 x 11mm

The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War. However, it is best remembered for the unique so-called 'Tanker War' which threatened to strangle the world's oil supplies. At the time Tucker-Jones as a defence analyst wrote extensively on the war and now brings his expertise to bear with this account of a conflict fuelled by festering regional rivalries, the Cold War and the emerging threat posed by militant Shia Islam.

Fought on land, at sea and in the air using some of the most modern weapons money could buy, Western-backed Saddam Hussein's Sunni Iraq and Shia Iran under the ayatollahs fought themselves to a standstill. Once Saddam's armoured blitzkrieg had been halted and Iran's human-wave counterattacks fought off, it became a war of attrition with major battles fought for the possession of Khorramshahr and Basra. Both sides resorted to chemical weapons and bombarding each other with missiles. When the war spilled over into the waters of the Gulf it sparked open Western intervention. Escalating attacks on oil tankers finally culminated in a ceasefire.
Christmas Catalogue 2024 x BookFrenzy
33.99
RRP: $39.99
15% off RRP


This product is unable to be ordered online. Please check in-store availability.
Instore Price: $39.99
Enter your Postcode or Suburb to view availability and delivery times.

Other Titles by Anthony Tucker-Jones

The Fall Of Berlin
Anthony Tucker-Jones
34.99
14.99
57% Off
Battle For The Caucasus 19421943
39.99
33.99
15% Off
T5455The Soviet Armys Cold War Main Battletank
39.99
33.99
15% Off
Tank Wrecks Of The Eastern Front 19411945
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Panzer I And II The Birth Of Hitlers Panzerwaffe
39.99
33.99
15% Off
Armoured Warfare In The Battle Of The Bulge 19441945
42.99
36.54
15% Off
Dien Bien Phu
Anthony Tucker-Jones
39.99
33.99
15% Off
Desert Air War 19401943 Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
39.99
33.99
15% Off
Daesh Islamic States Holy War
34.99
29.74
15% Off
Battle For Arnhem 19441945 Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
42.99
36.54
15% Off
Battle For Warsaw 19391945
Anthony Tucker-Jones
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Tank Wrecks Of The Western Front 19401945
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Hitlers Panzers The Complete History 19331945
75.00
63.75
15% Off
Stalins Armour 19411945 Soviet Tanks At War
75.00
63.75
15% Off
Allied Armour 19391945 British And American Tanks At War
75.00
63.75
15% Off
Tank Battles Of The Cold War 19481991
75.00
63.75
15% Off
Allied Armour 19391945 British And American Tanks At War
49.99
42.49
15% Off
Soviet Cold War Weaponry Tanks and Armoured Vehicles
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Voices from the Battlefield
ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
37.99
32.29
15% Off
Art of War in Twenty Battles
ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
37.99
32.29
15% Off
Changing Face of Aerial Warfare
39.99
33.99
15% Off
The Making of Victory
ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
49.99
42.49
15% Off
The Devils Bridge The German Victory At Arnhem 1944
39.99
33.99
15% Off
The Killing Game A Thousand Years Of Warfare In Twenty Battles
59.99
50.99
15% Off
Hitlers Bitter Harvest
Anthony Tucker-Jones
59.99
50.99
15% Off
The Making Of Victory
Anthony Tucker-Jones
65.00
16.99
74% Off
Slaughter On The Eastern Front
Anthony Tucker-Jones
34.99
29.74
15% Off
Operation Dragoon The Liberation of Southern France 1944
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Hitlers Armed SS The WaffenSS At War 19391945
75.00
63.75
15% Off
Hitlers Panzers The Complete History 19331945
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Churchill Cold War Warrior Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain
75.00
63.75
15% Off
Battle of the Cities Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front
75.00
63.75
15% Off
Slaughter On The Eastern Front
Anthony Tucker-Jones
60.00
51.00
15% Off
Armoured Warfare from the Riviera to the Rhine 1944  1945
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Soviet Cold War Weaponry Aircraft Warships and Missiles
47.99
40.79
15% Off
Battle for Kharkov 1941  1943
ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Panther Tank Hitlers T34 Killer
44.99
38.24
15% Off
German Assault Guns and Tank Destroyers 1940  1945
44.99
38.24
15% Off
The Panzer IV
Anthony Tucker-Jones
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Armoured Warfare in the First World War 19161918
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Battle for Budapest 1944  1945
44.99
38.24
15% Off
Armoured Warfare And The WaffenSS 19441945
39.99
33.99
15% Off
Panzer III
Anthony Tucker-Jones
39.99
33.99
15% Off


RRP refers to the Recommended Retail Price as set out by the original publisher at time of release.
The RRP set by overseas publishers may vary to those set by local publishers due to exchange rates and shipping costs.
Due to our competitive pricing, we may have not sold all products at their original RRP.