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'Chronicles the upheavals that have made this part of the world a battleground for centuries'
--Back cover
Contents: Peoples of the Gulf -- The birth of Islam -- Islam divided -- The golden age of Islam -- The long struggle for Iraq -- Empire by treaty -- Scramble for Persia -- The end of the Ottomans -- A kingdom in the sand -- The Pahlavi Shahs -- From king to coup in Iraq -- Revolt of the clerics -- War across the Gulf -- Operation Desert Storm -- Yemen -- Saddam Hussein toppled -- Old elites, new demands