Overview
Explores the intelligence and counterintelligence activities of both the Allied and Axis powers in Iraq during the Second World War
Examines the individuals who undertook secret roles, including the author Dame Freya Stark, and the human element of intelligence work
Analyses the covert operations in Iraq in the wider context of regional wartime events
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
This book provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2015). This account of covert operations in Iraq during the Second World War is based on archival documents, diaries, and memoirs, interspersed with descriptions of all kinds of clandestine activity, and contextualized with analysis showing the significance of what happened regionally in terms of the greater war. After outlining the circumstances of the rise and fall of the fascist Gaylani regime, Adrian O’Sullivan examines the activities of the Allied secret services (CICI, SOE, SIS, and OSS) in Iraq, and the Axis initiatives planned or mounted against them. O'Sullivan emphasizes the social nature of human intelligence work and introduces the reader to a number of interesting, talented personalities who performed secret roles in Iraq, including the distinguished author Dame Freya Stark.
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About the author
Adrian O'Sullivan, a former intelligence linguist, has lived and worked in the UK, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. He completed his doctorate in intelligence history at the University of South Africa and is an Emeritus Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He now lives and writes in semi-retirement on the west coast of Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Baghdad Set
Book Subtitle: Iraq through the Eyes of British Intelligence, 1941–45
Authors: Adrian O'Sullivan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15183-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15182-9Published: 16 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15183-6Published: 06 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 326
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of the Middle East, History of Military, Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of World War II and the Holocaust