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The struggle for Kirkuk : the rise of Hussein, oil, and the death of tolerance in Iraq
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The struggle for Kirkuk : the rise of Hussein, oil, and the death of tolerance in Iraq

Author: Henry D Astarjian
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Henry D Astarjian
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Henry D Astarjian
ISBN: 9780275995898 0275995895
OCLC Number: 122425263
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xvi, 179 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Kirkuk -- 2. Kurds, Turkomans, Arabs, and the others -- 3. From tranquility to conflict -- 4. A Communist offensive -- 5. Mr. Chapman, A.J.B. Chapman -- 6. Soviet plans for Baba Gurgur -- 7. Communism and the youth -- 8. 1948 -- 9. IPC and us -- 10. The dawn of the Kurdish era -- 11. The Western trajectory -- 12. The fermenting coups -- 13. The morning of July 14, 1958 -- 14. The turmoil of the 1940s -- 15. Kirkuk, the Jerusalem of Iraq -- 16. Kurdistan -- 17. A disastrous task -- 18. A long journey -- 19. Room # 11 -- 20. Courts, Kurds, and the Communists -- 21. Triumphs and defeats -- 22. Baghdad -- 23. The winds of change -- 24. A "U-turn" -- 25. More turmoil -- 26. "Your destiny is charted for you in the minute you are born" -- 27. A chitchat -- Index.
Responsibility: Henry D. Astarjian.
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