Using official documents in British, German, and US archives, as well as interviews with and the memoirs of more than three dozen participants and observes, Stewart has produced the most detailed and vivid account yet written of the events connected with the Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran in August and September, 1941... Stewart's well-written, fully documented, and well-indexed study of an often overlooked chapter in WW II is highly recommended for college, university, and public libraries. Choice
Game for the Domination of the World Helpless Pawn on a Slippery Chessboard The Arab Liberation Movement is Our Natural Ally The Germans Must Be Expelled from Iran Seeking a Magic Formula Say One Word to the British, They Would Not Invade Iran They're Blowing Her Up! The Russian Armor Has Broken Through! Handling a "Red-hot Iron" Why Should We Quit Fighting? We're Winning! There May Be a Revolution in Tehran Can You Hold the Throne?
RICHARD A. STEWART is a Major in the United States Marine Corps in which he specializes in intelligence and communications. He has published numerous articles on political-military affairs and history in such professional journals as the Army War College Journal, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Armed Forces Journal International, and the Marine Corps Gazette.
?. . . It is a welcome addition to the historiography of World War
II, telling an interesting, well-researched story. It is worth
reading.?-British Army Review
?Using official documents in British, German, and US archives, as
well as interviews with and the memoirs of more than three dozen
participants and observes, Stewart has produced the most detailed
and vivid account yet written of the events connected with the
Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran in August and September, 1941. The
Allies cited the presence of many German nationals in Iran as
pretext for their invasion. Their more compelling motives, however,
were to forestall a possible German entry entry through the
Caucasus, to secure the main supply route for weapons destined for
the USSR, and to safeguard Britain's oil interests in Khuzistan.
Stewart probes Britain's moral dilemma caused by invading a neutral
Iran, but concludes that Britain's desperate military position in
1941 justified the occupation. Competing Russian and Western
interests in Iran, however, initiated the Cold War in that land
long before VE day in Europe. This work supersedes such earlier
military histories as Paiforce: The Official Story of the Persia
and Iraq Command, 1941-1946 (London, 1948); and T.H. Vail Motter's
The U.S. Army in World War II: The Persian Corridor and Aid to
Russia (1956). The Iranian context can be further studied in George
Lenczowski's Russia and the West in Iran, 1918-1948 (1949), and
Iran Under the Pahlavis, ed. by George Lenczowski Bruce Kuniholm's
The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East clearly links the
emerging Cold War to the occupation of Iran. Stewart's
well-written, fully documented, and well-indexed study of an often
overlooked chapter in WW II is highly recommended for college,
university, and public libraries.?-Choice
." . . It is a welcome addition to the historiography of World War
II, telling an interesting, well-researched story. It is worth
reading."-British Army Review
"Using official documents in British, German, and US archives, as
well as interviews with and the memoirs of more than three dozen
participants and observes, Stewart has produced the most detailed
and vivid account yet written of the events connected with the
Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran in August and September, 1941. The
Allies cited the presence of many German nationals in Iran as
pretext for their invasion. Their more compelling motives, however,
were to forestall a possible German entry entry through the
Caucasus, to secure the main supply route for weapons destined for
the USSR, and to safeguard Britain's oil interests in Khuzistan.
Stewart probes Britain's moral dilemma caused by invading a neutral
Iran, but concludes that Britain's desperate military position in
1941 justified the occupation. Competing Russian and Western
interests in Iran, however, initiated the Cold War in that land
long before VE day in Europe. This work supersedes such earlier
military histories as Paiforce: The Official Story of the Persia
and Iraq Command, 1941-1946 (London, 1948); and T.H. Vail Motter's
The U.S. Army in World War II: The Persian Corridor and Aid to
Russia (1956). The Iranian context can be further studied in George
Lenczowski's Russia and the West in Iran, 1918-1948 (1949), and
Iran Under the Pahlavis, ed. by George Lenczowski Bruce Kuniholm's
The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East clearly links the
emerging Cold War to the occupation of Iran. Stewart's
well-written, fully documented, and well-indexed study of an often
overlooked chapter in WW II is highly recommended for college,
university, and public libraries."-Choice
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