Hitlers Gulf War The Fight For Iraq 1941

"During the spring of 1941 on an isolated, indefensible RAF base 55 miles from Baghdad a group of students and instructors in obsolete training aircraft, supported by a few poorly armed soldiers, outfought the much larger and better armed Iraqi forces aided by the Germans and Italians ... In a gigantic, audacious game of deception, less than fifteen hundred soldiers supported by the RAF in their vintage biplanes against odds of twenty to one, went on the take Baghdad. They foiled a coup, returned a king to his throne and destroyed Axis aspirations in the Middle East ... This book ... uses reported American, British, German, Italian and Iraqi dialogue whenever possible to produce this remarkable account of a thirty day war in Iraq in 1941, how it played out and how it set the scene for Iraq's turbulent future which has come to haunt the West"--Jacket.