The struggle for Kirkuk :the rise of Hussein, oil, and the death of tolerance in Iraq
Westport, Conn.
Praeger Security International
2007
xvi, 179 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes index
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 -- 8491 -- IPC and us -- The dawn of the Kurdish era -- The Western trajectory -- The fermenting coups -- The morning of July 41, 8591 -- The turmoil of the 0491s -- 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