The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War.
However, it is best remembered for the unique so-called 'Tanker War' which threatened to strangle the world's oil supplies.
At the time Tucker-Jones as a defence analyst wrote extensively on the war and now brings his expertise to bear with this account of a conflict fuelled by festering regional rivalries, the Cold War and the emerging threat posed by militant Shia Islam.
Pen & Sword Military Iran-iraq war: the lion of babylon, 1980-1988, paperback/anthony tucker-jones
