The struggle for Kirkuk : the rise of Hussein, oil, and the death of tolerance in Iraq / Henry D. Astarjian.

Author/creator Astarjian, Henry D.
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2007.
Descriptionxvi, 179 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Kirkuk -- Kurds, Turkomans, Arabs, and the others -- From tranquility to conflict -- A Communist offensive -- Mr. Chapman, A.J.B. Chapman -- Soviet plans for Baba Gurgur -- Communism and the youth -- 1948 -- IPC and us -- The dawn of the Kurdish era -- The Western trajectory -- The fermenting coups -- The morning of July 14, 1958 -- The turmoil of the 1940s -- Kirkuk, the Jerusalem of Iraq -- Kurdistan -- A disastrous task -- A long journey -- Room # 11 -- Courts, Kurds, and the Communists -- Triumphs and defeats -- Baghdad -- The winds of change -- A "U-turn" -- More turmoil -- "Your destiny is charted for you in the minute you are born" -- A chitchat -- Index.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007014264
ISBN9780275995898 (alk. paper)
ISBN0275995895 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks DS79.9.K37 A88 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold