Pierre Razoux. The Iran‐Iraq War, Cambridge, Belknap Press, 2015, 688 pp., ISBN: 978‐0674088634: The French View of the Iran-Iraq War

• Autores: James Bowden
• Localización: Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar, ISSN-e 2254-6111, Vol. 6, Nº. 12, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Arquitectura e instituciones militares: política, cultura y sociedad), págs. 344-346
• Idioma: inglés

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  • The Iran‐Iraq War

    Pierre Razoux

    Cambridge : Belknap Press, 2015

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  • Pierre Razoux, a French defense analyst, has authored what may become the standard account of the Iran-Iraq War. His book, “The Iran-Iraq War” is a detailed examination of this, one of the longest wars in history and certainly the longest in the Middle East. Although there are a few books that deal with individual aspects or theaters in this war, the book adds substantially to the fairly limited historiography on this subject as a whole and does so by addressing many of the areas that previous authors have only touched on in passing.

    Razoux does not approach the war from a particular thesis and there was no discernable effort to put one forth and develop it through the history. Whereas some of the other older books on this topic have taken stances on the war or covered the Iranians or Iraqis with lesser or greater nuance and detail, it appears that Razoux has managed to combine the two in a dispassionate narrative. This holds at least until it comes to one of the last chapters in the book which is discussed in detail below. Apart from this single instance Razoux successfully avoids becoming either an apologist or campaigner which enables the reader, either professional historian or enthusiast, to gain a deeper more holistic view of the conflict.