Format:
1 online resource (395 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781589015876
Content:
Immortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Iranian Phoenix -- 1 Heritage of Greatness, Legacy of Loss -- 2 Powerful Predecessors: The Safavids and Nader Shah -- 3 Laughingstock: The Qajar Military -- 4 Nationalism Unleashed: From Revolution to the Great War -- 5 Two Paths: The Birth of the Modern Iranian Armed Forces -- 6 Sidelined: The World at War in Iran -- 7 Cold War Pillar: The Rise of the Imperial Armed Forces -- 8 Old Guard, New Guard: Iran's Armed Forces in the Islamic Revolution -- 9 Horrible Sacrifice: The Iran- Iraq War -- 10 Despise Not Your Enemy: Iran's Armed Forces in the Twenty- first Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781589012585
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781589012585
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=449341
