Iraq Wars Bibliography

General and Miscellaneous

U.S. Policy: Overall

Iraq

The Iran-Iraq War, and U.S. Involvement in It

The First U.S. - Iraq War: Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990-1991)

Iraq Between the Two American Wars

The Second U.S. - Iraq War (2003- )

 

General and Miscellaneous

Mark Allen, Arabs. Continuum, 2007. 145 pp.

Christiane Bird, A Thousand Sighs, a Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan. New York: Ballantine, 2004. pb New York: Random House, 2005. 448 pp. Regional, not specifically Iraqi Kurdistan.

Juan Cole, Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culure and History of Shi’ite Islam. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002. viii, 254 pp.

Gwynne Dyer, After Iraq: Anarchy and Renewal in the Middle East. Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. 272 pp.

Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. New York: Knopf, 2005. xxii, 1111 pp. The 2003 war in Iraq, plus a lot of other recent history. Very critical of the US.
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Graham E. Fuller and Rend Rahim Francke, The Arab Shi’a: The Forgotten Muslims. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999. pb New York: Palgrave, 2001. x, 290 pp.

William Hale, Turkey, the US and Iraq. Interlink Publishing Group, 2007. 200 pp. Covers the relationships from the 1920s onward.

Faleh A. Jabar and Hosham Dawod, eds., Tribes and Power: Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Middle East. pb Saqi Books, 2003. 360 pp.

Wadie Jwaideh, The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development. Shyracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xx, 419 pp.

Mehdi Khalaji, The Last Marja: Sistani and the End of Traditional Religious Authority in Shiism. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2006. vi, 37 pp. Can be downloaded from the Institute's web page.

David McDowall, A Modern History of the Kurds, rev. ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. xii, 515 pp.

Kevin McKiernan, Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006. 390 pp. By a free-lance war correspondent.

David M. Malone, The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 398 pp. Malone is a former Canadian ambassador to the UN.

Hugh Miles, Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that is Challenging the West. New York: Grove Press, 2005. 438 pp.

Moojan Momen, An Introduction to Shi'i Islam. New Haven, 1985. This is supposed to be very good.

Morris M. Motale, The Origins of the Gulf Wars. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001. 224 pp.

Yitzhak Nakash, Reaching for Power: The Shi’a in the Modern Arab World. Princeton University Press, 2006. xiii, 226 pp. Particular attention to Iraq and Lebanon.

Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future. New York: Norton, 2006. 304 pp. Check library gets.

Denise Natali, Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. Syracuse University Press, 2005.

Mohammed el-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar, Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism. Boulder: Westview, 2003. xii, 240 pp. Paperback reprint, probably without significant modifications, of Al Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East. Boulder: Westview, 2002. 240 pp.

Robert A. Pape, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York: Random House, 2005. 335 pp.

Stephen Pelletière, America’s Oil Wars. New York: Praeger, 2004. 208 pp. Pelletière was the CIA’s senior political analyst on Iraq during the 1980s.

Stephen Pelletière, Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf. Greenwood, 2001. 239 pp. pb Maisonneuve Press, 2004. 250 pp. The topic is much broader—a long-term history of U.S. oil policy—than the title suggests.

Stephen C. Pelletière, Kurds: An Unstable Element in the Gulf. Boulder: Westview, 1984. 250 pp.

Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xv, 698 pp.

David Romano, The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

James E. Wise, Jr. and Scott Baron, Women at War: World War II to Iraqi Freedom. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. 234 pp.

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "Honor, Hatred, and America's Middle East in Historical and Comparative Perspective," Clio's Psyche, 10:3 (2003), pp. 80-84.

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "Honor in National Crises: Civil War, Vietnam, and Iraq," Journal of the Historical Society, December 2006, pp. 431-60.

Mohamed Zayani, ed., The Al Jazeera Phenomenon: Critical Perspectives on New Arab Media. Paradigm, 2005. 224 pp.

Mohamed Zayani and Sofiane Sahraoui, The Culture of Al Jazeera: Inside an Arab Media Giant. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 206 pp.

 

U.S. Policy: Overall

Gerald Astor, Presidents at War: From Truman to Bush, the Gathering of Military Powers To Our Commanders in Chief. Wiley, 2006.

Eyal Benvenisti, The International Law of Occupation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. vi, 241 pp. Paperback with a new preface by the author: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xviii, 241 pp. Traces actual practice from WWI onward, not just law.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower. Basic Books, 2007. 234 pp. Bush I, Clinton, Bush II. Very critical of Bush II.

Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. New York: Scribner, vii, 247 pp.

Midge Decter, Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait. New York: ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2003. xii, 220 pp. Apparently a pretty worshipful biography.

Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. New York: Knopf, 2006. 610 pp.

Tyler Drumheller, On the Brink: An Insider’s Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence. Carroll & Graf, 2006. 304 pp. Drumheller was chief of clandestine operations for Europe from 2001 until his retirement from the CIA in 2005.

Helen Duffy, The ‘War on Terror’ and the Framework of International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. li, 488 pp. According to the H-Diplo review by Daniel Margolies (3/8/07), Duffy really does match the right-wing stereotype of liberals who don’t want a vigorous effort against Al Qaeda; thinks it was not legitimate to go into Afghanistan after 9/11.

Foreign Policy Bulletin: The Documentary Record of United States Foreign Policy. Quarterly, Cambridge University Press. Online since 2005 at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=FPB&bVolume=y

Foreign Relations of the United States. Massive collections of documents, indexed, supposed to be published by the State Department about thirty years after the events.
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Long War Occasional Papers, formerly called Global War on Terrorism Occasional Papers (Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press)

Philip Gordon, Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World. New York: Times Books, 2007. Argues that the United States should apply a strategy against Islamic radicalism that looks more like containment than what the Bush administration has been doing.

Suman Gupta, Theory and Reality of Democracy: A Case Study in Iraq. Continuum International Publishing, 2006. 234 pp. New edition pb Continuum International Publishing, 2007. 244 pp. I get an impression this is probably not much about Iraq, more about US policy and rhetoric. But I have not actually seen the book, and I am not sure.

David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. New York: Scribners, 2001. 543 pp.

Howard M. Hensel [Air War College], ed., The Law of Armed Conflict. Ashgate, 2007. 280 pp.

Dale R. Herspring, Rumsfeld’s Wars: The Arrogance of Power. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xxiv, 247 pp.

William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse, While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxvi, 333 pp. My impression is that this is pretty theoretical; the table of contents does not show any chapter devoted to a particular incident or episode.

Jack Huberman, The Bush-Hater’s Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years. New York: Nation Books, 2003. xiv, 337 pp.

Joint Warfare of the Armed Forces of the United States. Joint Publication 1. 14 November 2000.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Making War to Keep Peace. HC, 2007. 384 pp. Published posthumously.

Adrian Lewis, The American Culture of War: A History of American Military Force from World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2006. 560 pp.

Douglas Little, “Mission Impossible: The CIA and the Cult of Covert Action in the Middle East.” Diplomatic History 28:5 (Nov 2004), pp. 663-701.

Marcus Mabry, Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power. Rodale, 2007. 360 pp.

James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York: Viking, 2004. xix, 426 pp. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell, Armitage, Rice, Wolfowitz.

Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Christopher Meyer, DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Run-Up to the Iraq War. Phoenix, 2006. 320 pp. The reader reviews on amazon.uk say it is very unrevealing.

Fotios Moustakis and Rudra Chaudhuri, "The Rumsfeld Doctrine and the Cost of US Unilateralism: Lessons Learned." Defense Studies 7 (September 2007), pp. 358-375.

Stephen C. Pelletière, Landpower and Dual Containment: Rethinking America’s Policy in the Gulf. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1999. 36 pp.

James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 288 pp. Risen is the NYT reporter who broke the story about NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in late 2005. His revelation of Operation Merlin, giving defective nuclear designs to Iran, looks irresponsible to me.

David J. Rothkopf, Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power. New York: Public Affairs, 2005. 554 pp.

Erik Saar and Viveca Novak, Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier’s Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo. New York: Penguin, 2005. 292 pp. Saar, a sergeant who had been trained in Arabic, was at Guantanamo December 2002 to June 2003.

Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. The New Press, 2007. 276 pp.

Ofira Seliktar, The Politics of Intelligence and American Wars with Iraq. Palgrave, 2008. x, 214 pp. My impression is that this is very theoretical, and deals more with academics and public intellectuals than with intelligence agencies.
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James R. Silkenat and Mark R. Shulman, eds., The Imperial Presidency and the Consequences of 9/11: Lawyers React to the Global War on Terrorism. 2 vols. Westport: Praeger, 2007. 520 pp.

Philip Smith, Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez. University of Chicago Press, 2005. x, 254 pp.

Lewis D. Solomon, Paul D. Wolfowitz: Visionary Intellectual, Policymaker, and Strategist. Westport: Praeger, 2007. 216 pp.

Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. xi, 367 pp. A lot of focus on Cheney.

John B. Taylor, Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World. New York: Norton, 2007. xxv, 324 pp. Taylor was Under Secretary for International Affairs at the Treasury Department. Covers crackdown on Al Qaeda finance, and financial reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq. Said to be laden with factual details. (Convincing defense of shipping billions in cash to Baghdad in author’s Op-ed, NYT, 2/27/07.)

George Tenet, with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. xxii, 549 pp.

Harlan Ullman and James Wade, Jr., with L.A. Edney, Frederick Franks, Jr., Charles Horner, Jonathan Howe, and Keith Bradley, Shock & Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1996. xxi, 199 pp.

Steven Wright, The United States and Persian Gulf Security: The Foundations of the War on Terror. Portland, Oregon: Ithaca Press, 2007. 248 pp.

William D. Wunderle, Through the Lens of Cultural Awareness: A Primer for US Armed Forces Deploying to Arab and Middle Eastern Countries. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2006. xi, 136 pp.

There are many topics for which the published transcripts of congressional committee hearings can be useful sources. The published transcripts are often accompanied by considerable amounts of documentation, or the documents may even be published without the excuse of a hearing. Transcripts of important committee hearings, if not classified, are usually published by the Government Printing Office (GPO), in Washington.  In the Clemson University Library, these are located on Level 3 (one floor down from where you come in), and usually have call numbers starting with Y 4.

The GPO issues monthly and annual subject indexes to its publications, and you can also do a search of recent ones on the GPO web site.. But for the years from 1970 onward, the index published by the Congressional Information Service (CIS) is better. For each year since 1970 CIS has published two volumes. One, titled Abstracts, has all the hearings published that year, arranged by committee. The other, Index, is the subject index. Look up whatever you are after, such as "Laos" or "Colby, William" in the Index, and you will see a list of items. If one looks as if it might be interesting, look it up in the Abstracts to get a more detailed description, and the call number that will let you find it on the shelf (at least in most cases) two floors up on Level 3. Bear in mind that a hearing held in one year may be published in a later year. (In the Clemson University Library, the CIS volumes have recently been moved down to Room 104, with a sign "Abstracts" by the door, in the back on the lowest floor of the library. The last time I checked, these volumes were in the middle aisle, right side, but I presume the room will soon be reorganized; when that happens, look for them under call number KF 49 .C62. They may be moved again when the current renovation program is completed.)

 

Iraq

Thabit A.J. Abdullah, A Short History of Iraq: From 636 to the Present. London & New York: Pearson, 2003. xxii, 234 pp.

Said Aburish, Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge. New York: Bloomsbury, 2000; pb Trafalgar Square, 2001.

Jafar Pasha Al-Askari, A Soldier's Story: From Ottoman Rule to Independent Iraq: The Memoirs of Jafar Pasha Al-Askari. Arabian Publishing, 2003. 294 pp. Jafar Pasha Al-Askari was an Arab who rose to general in the Ottoman Army before joining the Arab revolt in 1917. He served twice as prime minister of Iraq in the 1920s, under the British mandate, and was minister of defense when he was killed in the coup of 1936.

Henry D. Astarjian, The Struggle for Kirkuk: The Rise of Hussein, Oil, and the Death of Tolerance in Iraq. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. xvi, 179 pp. The Iraqi Communist Party and the struggle for control of the oil fields in the Kirkuk area, 1940s and 1950s. By a participant.

Amatzia Baram, Culture, History, and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq, 1968-89. New York: St. Martin's, 1991. xviii, 196 pp.

Hanna Batatu, The old social classes and the revolutionary movements of Iraq: A study of Iraq’s old landed and commercial classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists, and Free Officers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. xxiv, 1283 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2004. xxiv, 1283 pp.

Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was an upper-class Englishwoman who was hired by the British government during World War I because she knew Arabic and had extensive knowledge of the Arabs. She played a significant role during the following years, when the British were creating Iraq.

Ofra Bengio, Saddam’s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq. New York: Oxford U.P., 1998. pb 2002. 288 pp.

Lord Birdwood (Christopher Bromhead Birdwood, Baron), Nuri as-Said: A Study in Arab Leadership. London: Cassell, 1959. xi, 306 pp. Nuri as-Said (Nuri al-Sa'id) was an important figure in Iraq from the 1920s up to his death in the military coup of July 1958.

C.H. Bleaney and G.J. Roper, Iraq: A Bibliographical Guide. Brill, 2004. 522 pp.

CARDRI (Committee Against Repression and for Democratic Rights in Iraq) (Fran Hazelton, U. Zaher, et al.), Saddam’s Iraq: Revolution or Reaction?, 2d ed. London: Zed Books, 1989. xix, 266 pp.

Nathan J. Citino, "Middle East Cold Wars: Oil and Arab Nationalism in US-Iraqi Relations, 1958-1961. " In Kathryn Statler and Andrew Johns, eds., The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War, 1953-1961 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Con Coughlin, Saddam: The Secret Life. London: Macmillan, 2002. xxxiv, 350 pp.

Con Coughlin, Saddam: His Rise and Fall. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 448 pp.

Uriel Dann, Iraq under Qassem: A Political History, 1958-1963. New York: Praeger, 1969. xvi, 405 pp.

Eric Davis, Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2004 or 2005. 397 pp.

Toby Dodge, Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied. Columbia University Press, 2003. xix, 260 pp. Seems to focus on the 1920s and maybe 1930s, though I am not certain.

Matthew Elliot, 'Independent Iraq': The Monarchy and British Influence, 1941-58. London and Now York: Tauris, 1996. 248 pp.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernia, Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. Anchor, 1995. 368 pp. Fernia spent two years, in the 1950s, in a village in southern Iraq.

Peter W. Galbraith, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 260 pp. Main focus is on the Kurds. Galbraith (son of John K. Galbraith) first encountered them as a SFRC staffer; assisted them in 1991; has recently been advising them.

Gerald de Gaury, Three Kings in Baghdad: The Tragedy of Iraq’s Monarchy. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 232 pp. The Iraqi monarchy from 1921 to 1958.

Edmund A. Ghareeb, with Beth K. Dougherty, Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004. lxxvi, 459 pp.

Michael Goldfarb, Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. 354 pp. Goldfarb, a British journalist, profiles a Kurd who served as his guide in 2003, who had been a soldier in the Iraqi Army in the 1980s, and was murdered post-2003 for being too secular.
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Naji Al-Hadithi, ed., Iraq 1990: An Official Handbook. Baghdad: Ministry of Information and Culture/Dar al-Ma’mun, 1989. 293 pp.

Aylmer Haldane, The Insurrection in Mesopotamia, 1920. Lt. Gen. Haldane was in charge of putting down the insurrection.

A.M. Hamilton, Road Through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2004. 360 pp. Hamilton arrived in Iraq in 1928 for a major road construction project.

The Iraqi Documents: A Glimpse into the Regime of Saddam Hussein. Hearing, April 16, 2006, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on International Relations. iii, 39 pp. Serial No. 109-184.

Tareq Y. Ismael, The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq. Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi, 338 pp.

Faleh Abdul-Jabar (Faleh Jabar), ed., Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq. London: Saqi Books, 2002. 290 pp.

Faleh A. Jabar, The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq. pb London: Saqi Books, 2004. 389 pp.

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Princesses’ Street: Baghdad Memories. Trans. by Issa J. Boullata. University of Arkansas Press, 2005. 185 pp. Memoir by an important Palestinian writer of his life in pre-Saddam Baghdad.

Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb, War in the Gulf 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and its Implications. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 (pb 2001). 320 pp.

Sana al-Khayyat, Honour and Shame: Women in Modern Iraq. Saqi Books, 2001. 232 pp.

Francois-Xavier Lovat, Kurdistan Democratic Party. London: G.I.D. Editions, (1999?). 128 pp.

David Little and Donald K. Swearer, eds., Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 2007. 213 pp.

S. McKnight, “Hopeless Gestures: Iraqi Exile Forces since the 1968 Revolution,” in Matthew Bennett and Paul Latawski, eds., Exile Armies (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004).

Sandra Mackey, The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein. New York: Norton, 2002. pb New York: Norton, 2003. 427 pp.

Mohammad Gholi Majd, Iraq in World War I: From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest. University Press of America, 2006. 454 pp.

Kanan Makiya (original ed. under pseudonym Samir al-Khalil), Republic of Fear. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Updated ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxxvi, 323 pp.

Kanan Makiya, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World. New York: Norton, 1993. 367 pp. Denounces the failure of intellectuals to speak out against Saddam Husain.

Phebe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq, 2d. ed. Boulder: Westview, 2004. xxii, 392 pp.

Henry E. Mattox, A Chronology of United States – Iraqi Relations, 1920 – 2006. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

MidEast Web Bibliography: Iraq.

Yitzhak Nakash, The Shi’is of Iraq. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xiv, 312 pp. Re-issued with a new introduction, 2003. Said to be an important book.
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Kevin Noble, and Chris Foote Wood, Baghdad Trucker: Adventures of a Truck Driver. Northern Writers, 2006. 370 pp. Noble, an Englishman, seems to have been driving trucks in the area Iraq-Syria-Turkey in the 1970s and 1980s.

Lynne O’Donnell, High Tea in Mosul: The true story of two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq. London: Cyan Books, 2007. ix, 213 pp. Two women who in England in the 1970s fell in love with Iraqi men who were there for higher education, married them, and then went with them to Iraq to live. About half the book deals with the US invasion of 2003, and its aftermath. The author, a journalist, met them in Mosul in April 2003.

William R. Polk, Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 240 pp.

Suha Rassam, Christianity in Iraq: Its Origins and Development to the Present Day. Leominster, Herefordshire, UK: Gracewing, 2005. xxix, 203 pp.

Paul William Roberts, The Demonic Comedy: Some Detours in the Baghdad of Saddam Hussein. Canada: Stoddart, 1997. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. ix, 294 pp. Roberts, a British journalist and writer, managed to get into Iraq in 1990 by attaching himself to the Egyptian delegation going there for an Arab summit. He returned during the 1991 war, paying smugglers to get him from Jordan into Iraq. He went for a third time, by invitation of the Iraqi government, in 1995.

Georges Sada with Jim Nelson Black, Saddam’s Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein. Brentwood, TN: Integrity Publishers, 2006. xvi, 315 pp.

Khaled Salih, State-making, Nation-building and the Military: Iraq 1941-1958. Göteborg University, 1996. 177 pp.

Jean Sasson, Daughter of Iraq: Mayada: One Woman’s Survival Under Saddam Hussein. New York: Dutton, 2003. pb New York: New American Library (Penguin), 2004. xxi, 321 pp.

Priya Satia, “The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia.” American Historical Review, 111:1 (Feb 2006), pp. 16-51.

Reeva Spector Simon, Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny. Rev. ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 256 pp. Traces patterns of attitude and belief among Iraqi military officers, with the main focus on the period up to 1941, but to some extent running from the Sharifians within the Ottoman Empire before 1918, all the way to the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Peter Sluglett, Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country. I.B. Tauris, 2007. 384 pp. A history from 1914 to 1932.

Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett, Iraq since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 3d ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. xxi, 390 pp.

Gareth R.V. Stansfield, Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy. London, 2003.

Gareth Stansfield, Iraq: People, History, Politics. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2007. xv, 262 pp. Slightly more than half of this history of Iraq deals with events since 1979.

David Styan, France and Iraq: Oil, Arms and French Policy Making in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006. 272 pp. The background goes back to the end of World War I, but the main part of the book deals with Franco-Iraqi relations from De Gaulle onward.

Jo Tatchell, Nabeel’s Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq. Doubleday, 2007. 368 pp. Nabeel Yasin, a leading Iraq poet, went into exile in 1980 after the Baath declared him an enemy of the state.

Gordon Taylor, Fever & Thirst: A Missionary Doctor Amid the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan. Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005. 354 pp. The story of Asahel Grant, a doctor who went (with his family) in 1835 to the Kurdish area of the Ottoman empire, as a missionary to minister to Nestorian (Assyrian) Christians there. I am not certain whether the areas where he served later became part of Iraq.

Scott Taylor, Among the ‘Others’: Encounters with the Forgotten Turkmen of Iraq. Ottawa, Canada: Esprit de Corps Books, 2004. 208 pp.

Joseph Tragert, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Iraq. Indianapolis, Indiana: Alpha (Pearson Education?), 2003. xviii, 318 pp.

Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii, 311 pp. Third edition Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxiii, 357 pp.

William F. Tucker, Mahdis and Millenarians: Shi’ite Extremists in Early Muslim Iraq. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

United States Export Policy Toward Iraq Prior to Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait. This is said to exist as a staff report of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, October 27, 1992, Senate Report 102-996, but I can’t find it in CIS index, and I can’t find any other indication that Senate Reports went nearly as high as 996 during the 102nd Congress. Much more likely it was a hearing, as follows:
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Reidar Visser, Basra, the Failed Gulf State: Separatism and Nationalism in Southern Iraq. Germany: Lit Verlag, 2006. 256 pp.

Reidar Visser, British Policy and Inter-Sectarian Relations in Iraq, 1914-1926: A Preliminary Study Based on Documents of the British Government. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, 1997. 99 pp.

Ali Wardi, Understanding Iraq: Society, Culture, and Personality. Edwin Mellen Press, 2008 (forthcoming). 129 pp. Ali al-Wardi (1913-1995) is supposed to have been a great scholar of Iraqi history and society.

Haifa Zangana, City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007. 169 pp. Daughter of a Kurdish father and an Arab mother, she spent some time in Syria in the late 1960s, providing medical services to Palestinians. She became a member of the Central Leadership (CL) faction of the Iraqi Communist Party; she was arrested in 1972 and imprisoned for six months. Bitterly hostile to both the Baath and the US occupation of Iraq.

 

The Iran-Iraq War, and U.S. Involvement in It

Ronald E. Bergquist, The Role of Airpower in the Iran-Iraq War. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1988. x, 94 pp.

Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop, Iran-Iraq War in the Air, 1980-1988. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2000. 304 pp.

Anthony H. Cordesman and Abraham R. Wagner, The Lessons of Modern War, vol. II, The Iran-Iraq War. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1990. xxii, 647 pp.

Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., with David Chanoff, Line of Fire: From Washington to the Gulf, the Politics and Battles of the New Military. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 367 pp. Includes Iran-Iraq War.

Developments in the Persian Gulf, June 1984. Hearing, Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 11, 1984. iii, 71 pp.
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Rick Francona, Ally to Adversary: An Eyewitness Account of Iraq’s Fall from Grace. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999. xx, 186 pp. Francona was involved in U.S. assistance to Iraq 1987-88, then was personal interpreter to Norman Scharzkopf during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

John Glenn and John Warner, Persian Gulf: Report to the Majority Leader, United States Senate, from Senator John Glenn and Senator John Warner on their trip to the Persian Gulf May 27-June 4, 1987. v, 36 pp.
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Dilip Hiro, The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict. Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 1990. 323 pp.

Investigation into the downing of an Iranian airliner by the U.S.S. "Vincennes". Hearing, Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 8, 1988. iii, 56 pp.
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Bruce W. Jentleson, With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush, and Saddam, 1982-1990. New York: Norton, 1994. 300 pp.

Majid Khadduri, The Gulf War: The Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. viii, 236 pp.

Michael E. Palmer, On Course to Desert Storm: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1992. Contributions to Naval History, No. 5. xxii, 201 pp. Mainly covers the period from 1946 to 1988; the first few pages go back to the 19th century.

Mark Phythian, Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly Built Saddam’s War Machine. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xxvii, 325 pp.

Report on the Staff Investigation into the Iraqi Attack on the USS Stark. House Committee on Armed Services, 1987. v, 30 pp.

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Craig L. Symonds, Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. xvii, 378 pp. Chapter 5, “Operation Praying Mantis: The Persian Gulf, April 18, 1988” (pp. 263-320), is in fact a much broader look at USN involvement in the Iran-Iraq War than the title suggests.

Harold Wise, Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf, 1987-1988. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2007. xiii, 272 pp.

 

The First U.S. - Iraq War: Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990-1991)

Overall Desert Storm and Miscellaneous

Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM: Bibliography. Historical Resources Branch, US Army Center of Military History

James A. Baker, III, with Thomas M. DeFrank, The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War & Peace, 1989-1992. New York: Putnam, 1995. xvi, 687 pp. Baker was Secretary of State.

General Sir Peter de la Billière, Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War. London: HarperCollins, 1992. 348 pp. General de la Billière commanded the British forces of all services in Desert Storm.

Herbert H. Blumberg, The Persian Gulf War: Views from the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. 638 pp.

George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed. New York: Knopf, 1998. xiv, 590 pp.

Susan Canady et. al., TRADOC Support to Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm: A Preliminary Study. Fort Monroe, VA: Office of the Command Historian, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, 1992. xi, 101 pp.

Ramsey Clark et. Al., War Crimes: A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq. Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press, 1992. xi, 281 pp.

Crisis in the Persian Gulf region: U.S. policy options and implications. Hearings, Senate Committee on Armed Services, September 11, 13; November 27, 28, 29, 30; December 3, 1990. iv, 765 pp.
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Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh, The Gulf Conflict, 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. 548 pp. Paperback 1995.

Norman Friedman, Desert Victory: The War for Kuwait. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991. 440 pp.

"Frontline" Oral Histories. The PBS documentary series "Frontline" has made available a collection of oral histories of key people involved in this war, compiled during the research for one or more programs. Each of the links below goes to the first page of a multi-page oral history; just keep hitting the "more" button at the bottom of each page to move on to the next.

Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E Trainor, The Generals’ War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf. Boston: Back Bay Books (Little, Brown), 1995. xv, 551 pp. DS 79.72 .G67 1995

Zachary Karabell, "Backfire: U.S. Policy Toward Iraq, 1988 - 2 August 1990," Middle East Journal 49 (Winter 1995), 28-47.

Shant Kederian, 1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Story of an American Forced to Fight for Saddam against the Country He Loves. New York: Atria, 2007. 292 pp. Kederian, an Iraqi-American, made what was supposed to be a brief visit back to Iraq in 1980, and was unable to leave because of the Iran-Iraq War. He was drafted into the Iraqi Navy in 1985, and fought in the Basra area. Then in 1990 he was drafted into the Iraqi Army.

Khaled ibn Sultan, with Patrick Seale, Desert Warrior: A Personal View of the Gulf War by the Joint Forces Commander. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. xx, 492 pp. DS 79.74 .B56 1995

Michael Knights, Cradle of Conflict: Iraq and the Birth of the Modern U.S. Military. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005. xxiii, 462 pp. Both US-Iraq Wars, and detailed coverage of the operations in between.

Jerry M. Long, Saddam’s War of Words: Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. Austin: U of Texas Press, 2004. xiii, 272 pp.

Clayton R. Newell, Historical Dictionary of the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. lix, 363 pp. The focus is very American.

Joseph Nye and Roger Smith, eds., After the Storm: Lessons from the Gulf War. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1992. x, 415 pp.

William Pagonis, with Jeffrey Cruikshank, Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War. Harvard Business School Press, 1992. Quite interesting.

Vicki J. Rast, Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia. Air University Press, 2004. 466 pp. Looks pretty abstract. Text online at http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/Books/Rast/newrast.pdf.

William Rosenau, Special Operations Forces and Elusive Enemy Ground Targets. Santa Monica: Rand, 2001. xi, 60 pp. The Scud hunt is pp. 29-44.

Général Maurice Schmitt, De Diên Biên Phu à Koweït City (From Dien Bien Phu to Kuwait City). Paris: Grasset, 1992. 309 pp. Schmitt, who was the Chief of Staff of the French Army, devotes pp. 165-273 of this memoir to the Gulf crisis of 1990-1991.

Richard Alan Schwartz, Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998. vii, 216 pp.

Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, eds., The Gulf War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. Three Rivers Press, 1991. 526 pp.

Special Operations.com Bibliography of the 1991 war.

Martin Stanton, Road to Baghdad: Behind Enemy Lines: The Adventures of an American Soldier in the Gulf War. New York: Presidio (Random House), 2003. pb New York: Presidio (Ballantine [Random House]), 2004. 363 pp. Stanton, a U.S. Army major, adviser to the Saudis, was visiting Kuwait at the time Iraq invaded, and was a prisoner of the Iraqis for four months. He returned to his job as an adviser to the Abdul Aziz Brigade January 5, 1991. pp. 302-18 cover Battle of Khafji. pp. 331-346 cover the ground war.

U.S. Policy in the Persian Gulf. Hearings, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Part 1: December 4-5, 1990. iii, 201 pp. Part 2: December 6, 12, 13, 1990. iv, 277 pp. Mostly non-governmental witnesses, but Secreatary of State Baker's testimony appears in Part 1.
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Bob Woodward, The Commanders. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 398 pp.

Martin Yant, Desert Mirage: The True Story of the Gulf War. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus, 1991. 222 pp. Peter Arnett, including the baby milk factory, pp. 48-51. The question of whether Iraq was ready to continue past Kuwait into Saudia is pp. 90-92.

Steve A. Yetiv, The Persian Gulf Crisis. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.

Steve A. Yetiv, Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 288 pp. Mostly the decision to go to war in 1991, but some comparison with the decision to go to war in 2003. Publisher’s blurb gives the impression it has more political science theory than I like.

 

Air Power Desert Storm

Lt. Col. William F. Andrews, Airpower against an Army: Challenge and Response in CENTAF's Duel with the Republican Guard. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1998. ix, 132 pp.
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Sherman Baldwin, Ironclaw: A Navy Carrier Pilot’s Gulf War Experience. New York: William Morrow, 1996. xii, 265 pp.

James R. Brungess, Setting the Context: Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses and Joint War Fighting in an Uncertain World. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1994. xvii, 225 pp. The Vietnam War and Desert Storm are two of the cases considered.
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HOward K. Butler, Desert Shield and Desert Storm: An Aviation Logistics History, 1990-1991. St. Louis, MO: U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command, 1991. xv, 778 pp.

Mary E. Chenowith, The Civil Reserve Air Fleet and Operatin Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Issues for the Future. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1993. xx, 78 pp.

Alan Cockrell, Tail of the Storm: Flying Missions in the First Gulf War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. 248 pp. By a C-141 pilot.

Eliot A. Cohen et al., Gulf War Air Power Survey. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993.

Richard G. Davis, Decisive Force: Strategic Bombing in the Gulf War. Washington: GPO/Air Force History and Museums Program, 1996. 87 pp. D 301.82/7:D 35

Richard G. Davis, On Target: Organizing and Executing the Strategic Air Campaign Against Iraq. Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2002. xii, 385 pp.

Michael Donnelly, with Denise Donnelly, Falcon’s Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. x, 251 pp. Major Donnelly, USAF, served as a fighter pilot in the war. A few years later, he was diagnosed with ALS, which he believes was caused by exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons during the war.

"Frontline" Oral Histories. The PBS documentary series "Frontline" has made available a collection of oral histories of key people involved in this war, compiled during the research for one or more programs. Each of the links below goes to the first page of a multi-page oral history; just keep hitting the "more" button at the bottom of each page to move on to the next.

Fred L. Frostic, Air Campaign Against the Iraqi Army in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1994. xviii, 70 pp.

General Buster Glosson, War With Iraq: Critical Lessons. Charlotte, NC: GFF (Glosson Family Foundation), 2003. xii, 306 pp.

John Godden, ed., Shield and Storm: Personal Recollections of the Air War in the Gulf. London and Washington: Brassey's, 1994. viii, 145 pp. I believe this is a collection of accounts by British personnel.

R. Cargill Hall, ed., Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment. Washington: GPO/Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998. 679 pp.
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Peter Hunt, Angles of Attack: An A-6 Intruder Pilot’s War. New York: Ballantine, 2002. xi, 368 pp. Hunt was a pilot in VA-145, the Swordsmen, call sign “Rustler,” flying off USS Ranger (CV-61).

Perry D. Jamieson, Lucrative Targets: The U.S. Air Force in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations. Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2001. xiii, 247 pp.

Thomas A. Keaney, “Surveying Gulf War Airpower,” Joint Force Quarterly #2 (Autumn 1993).

Eric V. Larson and Bogdan Savych, Misfortunes of War: Press and Public Reactions to Civilian Deaths. Santa Monica, California: Rand, 2007. xxix, 263 pp. The first case considered is the bombing of the bunker at Al Firdos, February 13, 1991, on which the evidence is somewhat fudged to make the bombing appear more justified than it was. Page 43 says the bunker, originally built as a civilian shelter, had been converted into an Iraqi command-and-control facility. Note 33 adds what purports to be a summary of information from Human Rights Watch report Needless Deaths in the Gulf War [see below under Sherry]: "several days before the bombing, local residents of the Ameriyah district of Baghdad had complained to local officials about their lack of access to what had, during the Iran-Iraq war, been a civilian air defense shelter. Iraqi officials reportedly relented and opened the upper levels to civilians." In fact, while the report presented a range of conflicting evidence, its main tenor was: The bunker had been functioning as a civilian shelter right from the beginning of the air campaign. It had for a while been limited to civilians from elite families. About two weeks (not just several days) before the bombing it had been opened to a much wider range of civilians. There was uncertainty about whether some part of the bunker might have contained comunications equipment. (pp. 130-133)

David R. Mets, The Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1998. xi, 86 pp. Revised Edition: Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1999. xi, 86 pp. Colonel Warden played a crucial role in planning the innovative 1991 air campaign (see also a couple of works by Colonel Warden, below).
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John Andreas Olsen, John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007. xvi, 349 pp.

Performance of the Patriot Missile System in the Gulf War. Hearing before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, April 7, 1992. GPO, 1993. iv, 341 pp. I believe there is also a report of the same title from the same committee, House Report 102-1086.

Diane Putney, Airpower Advantage: Planning the Gulf War Air Campaign, 1989-1991. Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2004. xii, 481 pp.
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Col. Richard T. Reynolds, Heart of the Storm: The Genesis of the Air Campaign against Iraq. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1995. xxiv, 147 pp. This was intended to be volume 1 of 2, but so far as I am aware, the second was never published.

Virginia N. Sherry, et al., Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War. A Middle East Watch report. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991. xvi, 402 pp. Includes discussion of Iraqi, not just American, violations of the laws of war.

William L. Smallwood, Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War. Washington: Brassey’s, 1993. xviii, 241 pp. Based on interviews

Lt. Col. LeRoy D. Stearns, The 3d Marine Aircraft Wing in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps / GPO, 1998. ix, 223 pp.
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Warren E. Thompson, Bandits Over Baghdad: Personal Stories of Flying the F-117 Over Iraq. North Branch, MN: Specialty Press, 2000. vi, 200 pp.

Capt. Michael P. Vriesenga, ed., From the Line in the Sand: Accounts of USAF Company Grade Officers in Support of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 1994. xviii, 271 pp.
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John A. Warden III, The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1988. Shortly after writing this, Warden played a crucial role in formulating the plan for the 1991 air war.

John A. Warden III, "The Enemy as a System." Airpower Journal, Spring 1995, pp. 40-55.

Kenneth P. Werrell, The Evolution of the Cruise Missile. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Press, 1997. xiv, 289 pp.
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James A. Winnefield, Preston Niblack, and Dana J. Johnson, A League of Airmen: U.S. Air Power in the Gulf War. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1994. 361 pp.

 

Friendly Fire

The Investigation of a Friendly Fire Incident During the Persian Gulf War, S.Hrg. 104-268. Hearing of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, June 29, 1995. v, 202 pp. Deals with the incident of February 27, 1991, when a unit of the 3rd ACR attacked soldiers of an Engineer unit who were waiting beside a road because their truck had broken down.
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Minimizing Friendly Fire: The Army Should Consider Long-Term Solution, In Its Procurement Decision on Near-Term Needs, GAO/NSIAD-94-19, B-253863, U.S. GAO, October 22, 1993.
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Operation Desert Storm: Apache Helicopter Fratricide Incident, GAO/OSI-93-4, U.S. GAO, June 30, 1993.
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Charles R. Shrader, "Friendly Fire: The Inevitable Price," Parameters, 22 (Autumn 1992) [Shrader appears to be the Army expert on amicide; I am presuming this article must be about Desert Storm.]

United States General Accounting Office, National Security and International Affairs Division, Blackhawk incident legal questions.
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United States General Accounting Office, Operation Desert Storm: investigation of a U.S. Army fratricide incident. 109 pp. Deals with the incident of February 27, 1991, when a unit of the 3rd ACR attacked soldiers of an Engineer unit who were waiting beside a road because their truck had broken down. microfiche GA 1.13:OSI-95-10

 

Ground War Desert Storm

John Adams, Flight of the Shxtbyrdz: Frontline View. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004. iv, 366 pp. Adams served in the 1st Marine Division.

Air Assault in the Gulf: An interview with MG J. H. Binford Peay, III, Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Washington, DC: Center of Military History. 59 pp. Oral history interview conducted in June 1991.

Stephen A. Bourque, Jayhawk! The VII Corps in the Persian Gulf War. Washington: Department of the Army, 2002. xvi, 514 pp.

Stephen A. Bourque and John W. Burdan, The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2007. 312 pp. I believe the 1-4 Cavalry was in the 1st Infantry Division, VII Corps.

Tom Clancy, with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), Into the Storm. New York: Putnam, 1997. pb New York: Berkley, 1998. xii, 562 pp. Franks commanded VII Corps.

Jeffrey J. Coonjohn, Operation Desert Storm: A Soldier’s Journal: Stories from the Front: A First Hand Account of the Gulf War. Fresno, CA: Military Press, 1991. xv, 195 pp.

James J. Cooke, 100 Miles from Baghdad: With the French in Desert Storm. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. xi, 223 pp.

Sean T. Coughlin, Storming the Desert: A Marine Lieutenant’s Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Persian Gulf War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996. viii, 168 pp.

Barbara J. Evans, For the Love of My Country: Desert Storm. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2002. 165 pp.

Field Artillery. Fort Sill, Oklahoma; U.S. Army Field Artillery School. This journal has been published under this name since mid 1987. (It had appeared under various other titles intermittently since 1911.) All issues are available online through the Field Artillery archives page, which is nicely set up; you can choose to access either an entire issue in a very large .pdf file, or an individual article. Also it has a pretty decent search engine. A small sample:

Douglas Foster, Braving the Fear: The True Story of Rowdy US Marines in the Gulf War. PublishAmerica, 2006. 271 pp.

Joe Freitus, as told by Chris Freitus, Dial 911 Marines: Adventures of a Tank Company in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. McCarran, Nevada: New American Publishing, 2002. 320 pp.

"Frontline" Oral Histories. The PBS documentary series "Frontline" has made available a collection of oral histories of key people involved in this war, compiled during the research for one or more programs. Each of the links below goes to the first page of a multi-page oral history; just keep hitting the "more" button at the bottom of each page to move on to the next.

James F. Gebhardt, Eyes Behind the Lines: US Army Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Units, rev. ed. Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper #10. Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2005. vi, 177 pp. The Vietnam War is pp. 45-110. Desert Shield/Desert Storm is pp. 126-134. This historical study does not overtly discuss the 2003 US-Iraq War, but it was written with an eye to illuminating disputes over the use of reconnaissance units in that war.

Andrew Gillespie, Desert Fire: The Diary of a Gulf War Gunner. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England: Leo Cooper (Pen & Sword), 2001. xxiv, 248 pp. Gillespie commanded O Battery (called the Rocket Troop, though it was equipped with M109 A2/3 155mm self-propelled howitzers), 2nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery, 4th Armoured Brigade, British First Armoured Division.

Infantry. Fort Benning, Georgia: U.S. Army Infantry School. Tables of contents for issues since 1982, with actual links to the texts of articles in issues since 1988, were once available to the public on the Infantry web site. But now this material is open only to users having a userid and password in the Army's system. There were surprisingly few articles published relating to the 1991 war.
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Frederick Kagan, Leaders in War: West Point Remembers the 1991 Gulf War. Taylor & Francis, 2006.

Otto J. Lehrack, America's Battalion : Marines in the First Gulf War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xiii, 236 pp.

G.J. Michaels, Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998. xii, 253 pp.

Molly Moore, A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines. New York: Scribner’s, 1993. xv, 336 pp.

David J. Morris, Storm on the Horizon: Khafji: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War. New York: Free Press, 2004. xviii, 317 pp.
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David S. Pierson, Tuskers: An Armor Battalion in the Gulf War. Darlington, Maryland: Darlington Productions, 1997. 231 pp. 4/64 Armor.

Brigadier General Robert H. Scales, Jr. [et. al.], Certain Victory: The US Army in the Gulf War. xiii, 435 pp. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Staff, United States Army / GPO, 1993. Reprinted Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Command and General Staff College Press, 1994.

Frank N. Schubert and Theresa L. Kraus, eds., The Whirlwind War: The United States Army in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1995. xvi, 312 pp.

Richard M. Swain, “Lucky War”: Third Army in Desert Storm. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press.

Anthony Swofford, Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. New York: Scribner, 2003. 272 pp. A Marine sniper.

Joel Turnipseed, Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir. Penguin, 2003. 208 pp. Turnipseed was a Marine reservist mobilized for the war.

24th Mechanized Infantry Division. This division was part of the XVIII Airborne Corps.

United States Army Reserve in Operation Desert Storm: Ground Transportation Operations. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Reserve, 1994. v, 85 pp.
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U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991. The Marine Corps’ official history of the campaign (see also Stearns, above, the air war volume in this series).

Alex Vernon, with Neal Creighton, Jr., Greg Downey, Rob Holmes, and Dave Trybula, The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. xxiv, 330 pp. The authors were in the 1-64 Armor, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), XVIII Airborne Corps.

Buzz Williams, Spare Parts: A Marine Reservist’s Journey from Campus to Combat in 38 Days. New York: Gotham Books (Penguin), 2004. xx, 303 pp.

 

Covert & Special Ops Desert Storm

Michael Asher, The Real Bravo Two Zero: The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero. Weidenfeld Military, 2002. 240 pp. pb Cassell Military, 2003. An eight-man SAS patrol sent into Iraq 22 January 1991. Three were killed, four were captured, one escaped. Asher, a former member of the SAS but not a participant in the patrol, says that two best-selling books by men who were participants, NcNab and Ryan (see below), were seriously fictionalized.

Mike Coburn, Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission. pb Mainstream Publishing, 2004. 320 pp. He was a participant.

Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero. Pb Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1994. 412 pp. McNab (pseudonym?) was the team leader of the Bravo Two Zero mission.

Chris Ryan, The One that Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006. 241 pp. Previously published in paperback by Arrow Books, 2001. 418 pp. Ryan (pseudonym?) was a corporal in the famous SAS "Bravo Two Zero" mission into Iraq.

 

Media Desert Storm

Christopher Bellamy, Expert Witness: A Defense Correspondent’s Gulf War, 1990-1991. London and New York: Brassey’s, 1993. xxxi, 252 pp.

W. Lance Bennett and David L. Paletz, eds., Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xvi, 308 pp.

Robert E. Denton, Jr., ed., The Media and the Persian Gulf War. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1993. xviii, 302 pp.

John J. Fialka, Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xv, 78 pp.

Susan Jeffords and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds., Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf TV War. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xii, 343 pp. Looks a bit left wing, maybe.

Douglas Kellner, The Persian Gulf TV War. Boulder: Westview, 1992. xii, 460 pp.

John R. MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. New York: Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1992. viii, 260 pp. 2d ed. with a new preface Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

David E. Morrison, Television and the Gulf War. London: J. Libbey, 1992. viii, 100 pp.

Claude Salhani, Black September to Desert Storm: A Journalist in the Middle East. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. ix, 262 pp. Salhani began working as a photojournalist in 1970 in Beirut. Desert Storm is the last chapter.

Major General Winant Sidle, Ret., "A Battle Behind the Scenes: The Gulf War Reheats Military-Media Controversy." Military Review, September 1991, pp. 52-.

Perry M. Smith, How CNN Fought the War: A View from the Inside. New York: Carol, 1991. xvi, 223 pp.

Pete Williams, “A Gulf War Military-Media Review,” Defense Issues, March 14, 1991.

 

Medical Consequences of Desert Storm

Phil Brown, Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xxxiv, 356 pp. Considers breast cancer, asthma, and Gulf War-related illnesses.

Michael Donnelly, with Denise Donnelly, Falcon’s Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. x, 251 pp. Major Donnelly served as a fighter pilot in the war. A few years later, he was diagnosed with ALS, which he believes was caused by exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons during the war.

Ronald D. Fricker, Jr., et. al., Pesticide Use During the Gulf War: A Survey of Gulf War Veterans. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. 170 pp.

Gulf War Illnesses. Special hearing, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Senate Appropriations Committee, October 12, 2000. iii, 73 pp.
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House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight / House Committee on Government Reform [see also under GAO below]

House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

David H. Marlowe, Psychological and Psychosocial Consequences of Combat and Deployment with Special Emphasis on the Gulf War. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. 256 pp.

Gary Matsumoto, Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment that's Killing Our Soldiers and Why GI's are Only the First Victims. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xx, 362 pp.

Persian Gulf Veterans Act of 1998. Report, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, October 2, 1998. 37 pp.
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Richard A. Rettig, Military Use of Drugs Not Yet Approved by FDA for CW/BW Defense. Santa Monica: Rand, 1999. 122 pp. Available online if you are browsing through an institution that has paid for a subscription to NetLibrary.

[Distributed by Bernard Rostker, Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses, Department of Defense], Iraq’s Scud Ballistic Missiles. Unpaginated, about 90 pp. The text has been placed online in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

A Review of the Scientific Literature As It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1998-2003. Available online if you are browsing through an institution that has paid for a subscription to NetLibrary.

Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs

U.S. Dual-Use Exports to Iraq and their Impact on the Health of the Persian Gulf War Veterans, Hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, May 25, 1994. iii, 551 pp. Y 4.B 22/3:S.HRG.103-900

United States General Accounting Office (GAO)

Jeff Wheelwright, The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War. New York: Norton, 2001. 427 pp.

 

Navy Desert Storm

Bibliography: "United States Naval Forces in Desert Shield and Desert Storm: A Select Bibliography". This bibliography is much broader than the title suggests; most of the books listed are not specifically naval in their focus.

Chris Craig, Call for Fire: Sea Combat in the Falklands and the Gulf War. London: John Murray, 1995. Written by the Royal Navy's Senior Naval Officer Middle East during the Gulf War.

Edward Marolda, History: “The United States Navy and The Persian Gulf"

Edward J. Marolda and Robert J. Schneller Jr., Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War. Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, 1998. xxi, 517 pp.
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Arnold Meisner, Desert Storm Sea Victory. Stillwater, MN: Motorbooks International, 1991. 128 pp.

Duncan E. Miller and Sharon Hobson, The Persian Excursion: The Canadian Navy in the Gulf War. Toronto: The Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 1995.

Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm sealift performance and future sealift requirements. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, April 23 and May 21, 1991. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1992. v, 596 pp.
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Persian Gulf Sealift Requirements. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, September 18 and 26, 1990. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1990. iv, 506 pp.
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Robert J. Schneller, Jr., Persian Gulf Turkey Shoot: The Destruction of Iraqi Naval Forces during Operation Desert Storm. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1993.

The United States Navy in "Desert Shield"/"Desert Storm". A preliminary history, compiled by the U.S. Navy in 1991, in the immediate aftermath of the war.

 

Iraq between the two American Wars

Abbas Alnasrawi, Iraq’s Burdens: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. x, 179 pp.

Anthony Arnove, ed., Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000. 216 pp. Updated ed.: Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002. 262 pp.

Barbara Nimri Aziz, Swimming Up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with Iraq. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xviii, 314 pp. Aziz, an anthropologist, arrived in Iraq in 1989. The main emphasis of the book is on conditions under the US-led embargo after 1991, but there are also comments on events of 2003 and after. Bitterly critical of US policy.

Peter P. Bartos, "A Day on Northern Watch: November 2, 2000. Air Power History, Spring 2007, pp. 16-21.

Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman, Confronting Iraq: U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000. 124 pp.

Patrick Clawson, ed., How Has Saddam Hussein Survived? Economic Sanctions, 1990-93. McNair Paper no. 22. Washington, D.C.: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 1993.

Dilip Hiro, Iraq: A Report from the Inside. Granta, 2003. 271 pp. Critical of U.S. policy.

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Yasmin Husein Al-Jawaheri, Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions. Lynne Rienner, 2008. 228 pp.

Sam Pender is a very prolific author, probably self-publishing (Virtualbookworm.com), in this area. Titles include America’s War with Saddam, 1990-2003 (2004, 392 pp.); The Ignored War: America’s War with Saddam, 2/2/91 to 3/19/03 (2004, 292 pp.); Iraq’s Smoking Gun (2004, 356 pp.); Saddam’s Ties to Al Queda (2005, 684 pp.).

Scott Ritter, Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. pb with afterword dated 2002 New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 256 pp.

Gordon W. Rudd, Humanitarian Intervention: Assisting the Iraqi Kurds in Operation Provide Comfort, 1991. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2004. xvi, 280 pp.
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Geoff [Geoffrey Leslie] Simons, The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice, 2d ed. New York: VHPS/St. Martin’s, 1998. 384 pp.
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Geoff Simons, Targeting Iraq: Sanctions and Bombing in US Policy. London: Saqi Books, 2002. 274 pp.

Graf H.C. Sponeck, A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xiv, 322 pp.

Status of U.S. Efforts Regarding Iraq's Compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolutions. A series of reports under this title were sent by the President to the Congress.

Scott Taylor, Spinning on the Axis of Evil: America’s War against Iraq. Ottawa: Esprit de Corps Books, 2003. 232 pp. Among other things, this book recounts several trips Taylor, a Canadian journalist, made to Iraq between the two U.S. wars.

Lt. Col. Paul K. White, USAF, Crises After the Storm: An Appraisal of U.S. Airpower in Iraq since 1991. Military Research Papers, #2. Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1999. 93 pp.

 

The Oil-for-Food Program

Jeffrey A. Meyer and Mark G. Califano, Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Program and the Threat to the U.N. Introduction by Paul A. Volcker. New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. xl, 275 pp.

House Committee on Commerce

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House Committee on Government Reform

House Committee on International Relations

 

WMDs and Accusations about Iraqi Links with Al Qaeda

James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies. New York: Doubleday (Random House), 2004. 420 pp. Paperback [with a substantial afterword added, pp. 379-423] New York: Anchor (Random House), 2005. 472 pp.

Rod Barton, The Weapons Detective: The Inside Story of Australia's Top Weapons Inspector. Melbourne, Australia: Black Inc. Agenda, 2006. x, 278 pp. Most of this deals with Barton's investigations of Iraqi WMD programs.

Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2004. x, 285 pp.

Richard Butler, The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security. New York: PublicAffairs, 2000. xxiv, 262 pp. Butler was the former chairman of UNSCOM.

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction [Laurence Silberman and Charles S. Robb, co-chairmen], Report to the President of the United States, March 31, 2005. xi, 601 pp.
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Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD, With Addendums (The Duelfer Report). Central Intelligence Agency, 2005. The original report was dated September 30, 2004. The addenda were added in March 2005.

Bob Drogin, Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War. New York: Random House, 2007. xxi, 343 pp. Drogin is a journalist, with the Los Angeles Times.

Peter Eisner and Knut Royce, The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq. Rodale Press, 2007. The supposed purchase of uranium from Africa.

Khidir Hamza with Jeff Stein, Saddam’s Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq’s Secret Weapon. pb New York: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2001. 352 pp. [There may have been a 2000 hardback].

Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America. Hayes is a reporter for the Weekly Standard.

Joost R. Hiltermann, A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxvii, 314 pp.

Robert Jervis, “Reports, Politics, and Intelligence Failures: The Case of Iraq.” Journal of Strategic Studies, 29:1 (Feb 2006), pp. 3-52. Online to institutions like Clemson that have paid the fee.

House Committee on Foreign Affairs / House Committee on International Relations

Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq. Report, Special Investigations Division, Minority Staff, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, March 16, 2004. iv, 30 pp. Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman.

Jean E. Krasno and James E. Sutterlin, The United Nations and Iraq: Defanging the Viper. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 264 pp. A study of UNSCOM, apparently focused on 1991-1998.

Mahdi Obeidi and Kurt Pitzer, The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam’s Nuclear Mastermind. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. xiii, 242 pp. Favorably reviewed by Hayden Peake, .

Reports of Weapons of Mass Destruction Findings in Iraq. Hearing, House Committee on Armed Services, June 29, 2006. iii, 105 pp.
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Craig R. Whitney, ed., The WMD Mirage: Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War. New York: Public Affairs, 2005. xxvii, 671 pp.

Joseph Wilson, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. 513 pp. After Wilson publicly denounced an inaccurate statement by President Bush about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, White House officials leaked to various reporters the fact that his wife (below) worked for the CIA.

Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 320 pp.

 

The Second U.S. - Iraq War (2003- )

General and Miscellaneous

Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq. London and New York: Verso, 2003. x, 214 pp. Very critical of U.S. policy, from a leftist perspective.

Yossef Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War. New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), 2004. 570 pp. I have not read this book, but I have been told that in it Bodansky, ex-director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, makes statements I find most improbable, such as that Saddam Husayn was deeply involved with al-Qa'ida; that he dispatched a 500-man terrorist battalion to North America in 2002; and that Iraqi forces were armed with WMDs that have been hidden in Syria or buried in the Iraqi desert. The book has a some bibliographic information but no source notes.

Colonel Walter J. Boyne, USAF (Ret.), Operation Iraqi Freedom: What Went Right, What Went Wrong, and Why. New York: Forge (Tom Doherty Associates), 2003. 304 pp.

Robert K. Brigham, Is Iraq Another Vietnam? New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. xv, 207 pp. I don't know whether any modifications are being made in the paperback edition, Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008 (forthcoming).

Matthew Currier Burden, The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 191 pp. I am told this is made up predominantly of the writings of soldiers who support the war and U.S. policy.

Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries. Hutchinson, 2007. 816 pp. pb Arrow Books, 2008. 816 pp. Diaries of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s press secretary.

Kenneth J. Campbell, A Tale of Two Quagmires: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Hard Lessons of War. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2007. 160 pp. Very anti-war.

Christopher Cerf and Micah L. Sifry, eds., The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. Touchstone, 2003. 736 pp.

Alexander Cockburn (and Jeffrey St. Clair?), Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars. London and New York: Verso, 2004. 378 pp.

Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq. London and New York: Verso, 2006. 229 pp. Cockburn, a British journalist who wrote for the Independent and the London Review of Books, arrived in Iraq just before the war began in 2003, and stayed covering the insurgency.

Joseph J. Collins, Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 2008. x, 43 pp. Institute for National Strategic Studies Occasional Paper 5.

Robin Cook, The Point of Departure: Why One of Britain’s Leading Politicians Resigned over Tony Blair’s Decision to Go to War in Iraq. Simon & Schuster, 2004. 384 pp. pb The Point of Departure: Diaries from the Front Bench. Pocket Books, 2004. 432 pp. Cook, Leader of the British House of Commons and former Foreign Secretary, resigned from Tony Blair’s cabinet on March 17, 2003, in protest against the impending war in Iraq.

Anthony H. Cordesman, The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons. Westport: Praeger, 2003. xiv, 572 pp.

Paul Cornish, ed., The Conflict in Iraq, 2003. New York: St. Martin’s, 2004. 297 pp.

Sara Daniel, Voyage to a Stricken Land: Four Years on the Ground Reporting from Iraq: A Woman’s Inside Story. Translated from the French by George Holoch. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006. xii, 193 pp. A French journalist, who had previously worked in the U.S. and Jordan, and who in Iraq covered both Americans and insurgents.

Mark Danner, The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History. New York: Random House (New York Review Books?). 176 pp.

Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong, USMC, Ret., with Noah Lukeman, Inside CentCom: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2004. xviii, 222 pp. “Rifle” DeLong was deputy commander of CENTCOM.

Howard A. DeWitt, The Road to Baghdad. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 2003. 158 pp.

Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2005. 369 pp. Diamond was in Iraq as an adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority from January to April 2004.

Thomas Donnelly, Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 2004. xvi, 123 pp.

James Fallows, Blind Into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq. New York: Vintage (Random House), 2006. xxv, 229 pp.

Mike Ferner, Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran for Peace Reports from Iraq. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. xv, 164 pp.

Alan Feuer, Over There: From the Bronx to Baghdad. New York: Counterpoint, 2005. ix, 283 pp.

Sean Michael Flynn, The Fighting 69th: One Remarkable National Guard Unit's Journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad. New York: Viking(?), 2008 (forthcoming).

From the Editors of Time, 21 Days to Baghdad: The Inside Story of How America Won the War Against Iraq. New York: Time Books, 2003. 176 pp. Mostly pictures; a moderate amount of text, pretty enthusiastic about the war.

Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young, eds., Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, Or, How Not to Learn from the Past. New York: The New Press, 2007. 322 pp.

Charles Glass, The Northern Front: A Wartime Diary. Foreword by P.J. O’Rourke. London: Saqi, 2006. 275 pp. In January 2003, Glass accompanied some of the exile leaders (including Kanan Makiya and Ahmad Chalabi) to Iraqi Kurdistan (going in through Iran), to await the coming war there.

Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2006. xxxii, 603 pp.

Philip H. Gordon & Jeremy Shapiro, Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. vi, 266 pp.

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Andrew M. Greeley, A Stupid, Unjust, and Criminal War: Iraq, 2001-2007. Orbis, 2007. 215 pp.

La guerre en Irak, le livre noir. Documents reunis at presentes par Reporters san frontieres. Preface de Robert Menard, postface d’Olivier Weber. Paris: Editions la Decouverte, 2004. 219 pp. A collection of reports by Human Rights Watch and other groups about human rights violations during the American war.

Tom Hayden, Ending the War in Iraq. New York: Akashic Books, 2007. 217 pp. Traces the conflicts between antiwar forces and the neoconservatives back to the 1960s.

Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas, "The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests Near Fort Bragg," Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 4 (December 2006): 484-505.

Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas, "Partisans, Nonpartisans, and the Antiwar Movement in the United States," American Politics Research, Vol. 35, No. 4 (July 2007), pp. 431-464. The text is online to users at subscribing institutions.

Seymour M. Hersh, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. xix, 394 pp.

Raphael Israeli, The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue: The Regional Impact on Shi’ites, Kurds, Sunnis, and Arabs. Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. x, 278 pp.
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Sheila Enslev Johnston, The Iraqi Conflict. Canada: Altitude Publishing, 2008. 192 pp. Johnston is a former Canadian Army officer and a student of military affairs, but the publisher’s publicity does not mention any particular qualifications regarding Iraq.

John Kampfner, Blair’s Wars. The Free Press, 2003. pb with a new preface (and possibly other changes?) The Free Press, 2004. 401 pp.

John Keegan, The Iraq War. New York: Knopf, 2004. 272 pp. I usually like Keegan's work, but I saw more errors in this one than I had expected.

Steven Kettell, Dirty Politics? New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq. Zed Books, 2006. 256 pp.

Michael Knights, ed., Operation Iraqi Freedom and the New Iraq: Insights and Forecasts. Washington: Washington Institute for New East Policy, 2004. 375 pp.

Jim Lacey and Sharon Tosi Moore, eds., Fresh from the Fight: The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq: An Anthology of National War College Studies by American Combat Commanders. Zenith Press, 2008 (forthcoming).

Michael A. Ledeen, The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots' Quest for Destruction. New YOrk: Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's, 2007. 234 pp. Judging from the review in the New York Times Book Review, September 9, 2007, this seems to be a rather silly book, arguing that Iran has been controlling the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, and controlling Al Qaeda. Ledeen works at the American Enterprise Institute.

Matthew McAllester, Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam’s Iraq. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 284 pp.

Thomas G. Mahnken, ed., War in Iraq: Planning and Execution. London: Routledge, 2007. 263 pp.

Camilo Mejía, Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía. New York: New Press, 2007. 312 pp. Camilo Mejia went into Iraq, probably in April 2003 (though I didn’t see a date on a brief scan) with C Company, 1-124 Infantry, Florida National Guard. In 2004 he applied for a CO discharge from the National Guard; he ended up being prosecuted for desertion. Apparently a pretty negative picture of US operations in the Sunni Triangle.

Richard F. Miller, A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. xii, 243 pp. Miller, an amateur historian of the Civil War, was embedded aboard the Kitty Hawk, as a correspondent for Talk Radio New Service, from March 9 to March 23, 2003.

Greg Mitchell, So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq. New York: (Union Square Press? Sterling?), 2008 (forthcoming). 320 pp.

Heraldo Muñoz, A Solitary War: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of the Iraq War and Its Lessons. Foreword by Kofi Annan. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum, 2008. xiii, 270 pp. Munoz was Chile’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Williamson Murray and Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr., The Iraq War: A Military History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 368 pp.

Laurie Mylroie, The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study of Revenge. 2nd rev. ed. Foreword by R. James Woolsey. pb New York: ReganBooks (HarperCollins), 2001. xxviii, 318 pp. Front cover blurb by Paul Wolfowitz. The original was Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished War Against America. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Press, 2000. xviii, 323 pp.

Laurie Mylroie, Bush vs the Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror. New York: Regan Books, 2003. 258 pp. Judging by the description in AFIO WIN 08/16/04, this is pretty fanciful about links between Saddam and Al Quaeda, related issues.

Erick W. Nason, From Desert Storm to Iraqi Freedom: One Soldier's Story. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHOuse, 2006. 251 pp. Nason as a Special Forces soldier did SAR during Desert Storm; he was in northern Iraq in 2003, and later in Baghdad.

Off target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq