This book provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2015). This account of covert operations in Iraq during the Second World War is based on archival documents, diaries, and memoirs, interspersed with descriptions of all kinds of clandestine activity, and contextualized with analysis showing the significance of what happened regionally in terms of the greater war. After outlining the circumstances of the rise and fall of the fascist Gaylani regime, Adrian O’Sullivan examines the activities of the Allied secret services (CICI, SOE, SIS, and OSS) in Iraq, and the Axis initiatives planned or mounted against them. O'Sullivan emphasizes the social nature of human intelligence work and introduces the reader to a number of interesting, talented personalities who performed secret roles in Iraq, including the distinguished author Dame Freya Stark.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Adrian O'Sullivan
EAN: 9783030151829
COUNTRY: Switzerland
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WEIGHT: 739 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-05-16
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GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / World
WIDTH: 148 cm
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Book Themes:
United Kingdom, Great Britain, Iraq, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Military intelligence, Colonialism and imperialism, Second World War
Adrian O'Sullivan, a former intelligence linguist, has lived and worked in the UK, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. He completed his doctorate in intelligence history at the University of South Africa and is an Emeritus Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He now lives and writes in semi-retirement on the west coast of Canada.
