OPERATIONS IN PERSIA OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR NEW & FREEPOST IN UK

OPERATIONS IN PERSIA. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR OTHER THEATRES:\nThe story of Persia (today\u2019s Iran) during The Great War, when it was a major strategic player between the warring Turkish, Russian and British Empires \u2013 vital because of the oil riches in and around it. This volume tells how German attempts to stir up an Islamic Jihad were foiled, and how the situation was saved by Britain\u2019s \u2018Dunsterforce\u2019 after the Russian revolution.\nPersia (modern Iran) was a key strategic piece on the global chessboard of The Great War, placed as it was between Afghanistan and the warring Ottoman Turkish, Russian and British Empires. In 1914 Britain sent an Anglo-Indian force to Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to deny the Turks access to the Persian oil fields. Germany retaliated by attempting to stir up an Islamic Jihad against the Allied incursion in Persia and India. This was foiled by the capture of German agents, as was a German attempt to kidnap the young Shah of Pe.