The twilight war: the secret history of America's thirty-year conflict with Iran

Reveals the covert operations that have brought the United States and Iran to the brink of open war, including Iran's proposal for peace after 9/11, which was rejected by President Bush, and Iran's secret army in post-U.S. invasion Iraq.

  • OCLC #: 758386910
  • ISBN #:
    • 9781594203411
    • 1594203415
  • Call #: E183.8.I55C75 2012
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Storage — E183.8.I55 C75 2012
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
  • Physical Description: 638 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Contents:
    • Maps
    • "A little king in your heart"
    • A new grand strategy
    • Barbed-wire Bob
    • A den of spies
    • A fig leaf of neutrality
    • Sharon's grand design
    • A spectacular action
    • The American Hamlet
    • Sleepy hollow
    • Arms for the Ayatollah
    • A ring on the American finger
    • The wake-up call
    • The invisible hand of God
    • A window of opportunity
    • The night stalkers
    • A very close call
    • No higher honor
    • Good-bye, Captain Nasty
    • The terrible climax
    • Goodwill begets goodwill
    • War or peace
    • An atrocity
    • An axis of evil
    • Defeat or victory
    • The freedom agenda
    • A quasi-war
    • An extended hand and a closed fist.