Under Five Shahs
Author: General Hassan Arfa
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 494
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Published: 1965
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 462
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven R. Ward
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1626160651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImmortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran’s military history. CIA analyst Steven R. Ward shows that Iran’s soldiers, from the famed “Immortals” of ancient Persia to today’s Revolutionary Guard, have demonstrated through the centuries that they should not be underestimated. This history also provides background on the nationalist, tribal, and religious heritages of the country to help readers better understand Iran and its security outlook. Immortal begins with the founding of ancient Persia’s empire under Cyrus the Great and continues through the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) and up to the present. Drawing on a wide range of sources including declassified documents, the author gives primary focus to the modern era to relate the build-up of the military under the last Shah, its collapse during the Islamic revolution, its fortunes in the Iran-Iraq War, and its rise from the ashes to help Iran become once again a major regional military power. He shows that, despite command and supply problems, Iranian soldiers demonstrate high levels of bravery and perseverance and have enjoyed surprising tactical successes even when victory has been elusive. These qualities and the Iranians’ ability to impose high costs on their enemies by exploiting Iran’s imposing geography bear careful consideration today by potential opponents.
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-08-06
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0804153507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Insightful and important.... A readable, timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of the revolutionary forces at work in Iran.... The reader almost becomes a participant." —The New York Times Book Review In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight. From his vantage point at the break-up of the old regime, Kapuscinski gives us a compelling history of conspiracy, repression, fanatacism, and revolution. Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.
Author: Dr Stephanie Cronin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1134328893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven though the left has never held power in Iran, its impact on the political, intellectual and cultural development of modern Iran has been profound. This book's authors undertake a fundamental re-examination and re-appraisal of the phenomenon of leftist activism in Iran, interpreted in the broadest sense, throughout the period of its existence up to and including the present.
Author: Abbas Milani
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-05-22
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0230340385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Iranian scholar chronicles the life and legacy of the last Shah of Iran, including his role in the creation of the modern Islamic republic.
Author: Dr Stephanie Cronin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1136026940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays, by a distinguished group of specialists, offers a new and exciting interpretation of Riza Shah's Iran. A period of key importance, the years between 1921-1941 have, until now, remained relatively neglected. Recently, however, there has been a marked revival of interest in the history of these two decades and this collection brings together some of the best of this recent new scholarship. Illustrating the diversity and complexity of interpretations to which contemporary scholarship has given rise, the collection looks at both the high politics of the new state and at 'history from below', examining some of the fierce controversies which have arisen surrounding such issues as the gender politics of the new regime, the nature of its nationalism, and its treatment of minorities.
Author: S. Cronin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-10-27
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0230309038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgainst conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency.