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Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
520 From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of cities. The IranIraq War offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the regions collective memory but little understood in the West. Pierre Razoux shows why this war remains central to...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Explores the pivotal battles, profiles the commanders, and chronicles the myriad ways in which war has shaped the modern world. The 26 episodes in this monumental set draw on an encyclopedic collection of archival film dating back to 1896 to create an unforgettable visual record of every major engagement from WWI to the liberation of Kuwait.
11) Under the shadow
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Persian
Description
"Shideh and her young daughter, Dorsa, are left alone in a war-torn city when her husband is drafted and sent to the front lines. After a dud missile strikes their apartment building, a neighbor mysteriously dies and Dorsa's behavior becomes erratic. Shideh scoffs at her superstitious neighbor's warning that the missile carries an ancient curse, Shideh now realizes that the malevolent force in her home is infinitely more evil and terrifying than the...
14) The jacket
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A Gulf War veteran has returned home only to be convicted of a murder he didn't commit. While in an institution for the criminally insane he is mysteriously transported to the future where he hopes to make changes that can alter the course of history.
15) Marooned in Iraq
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Kurdish
Description
During the Iran-Iraq war, an Iranian-Kurd musician and his sons go to find the old man's former wife, a singer, who fled Iran when women were forbidden to perform publicly.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Disasters at sea raise many questions about the U.S. Navy's uneasy alliance with costly high-tech weapons systems. On a sunday morning in July, 1988, a U.S. navy warship shot down Iran air lines flight 655, accidentally killing 290 civilians.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of an Iraqi-born American whose brief 1980 visit to Baghdad was halted by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran, after which the author was trapped in the region and forced to fight against American forces in Desert Storm.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts and journalists took into account the profound impact that Iraq's long engagement with war had on the Iraqis' everyday engagement with politics, the business of managing their daily lives, and their cultural imagination. Drawing on government documents and interviews,...