Iran-Iraq War in the Air 1980-1988
by Tom Cooper, Farzad Bishop
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Author: Farzad Bishop, Tom CooperEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Import
Published: 2003
ISBN: 0764316699
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing 2003-01
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Book Review: Excellent - despite flaws
Summary: 5 Stars
This is great book and a must for any airpower enthusiast.
It starts with evolution of both Iraqi and Iranian airforces, progresses through clashes between Iran and Iraq in '70s, revolution in Iran and it's effects on Iranian air force and on to war, dividing it into phases, with each phase analised at the end.
While detailling war in the air (especially long-range air-to-air battles) on chronological basis it also describes battles on the ground and sea, so reader gets good idea about context of the fighting and why airforces did what they did.
The book includes several interesting anectodes, disspells several myths (especially the one about "sabotaged" Iranian F-14s), is jammed with exceptional amount of info, and ends with comprehensive performance analysis.
There are several flaws - including numerous typos and setting mistakes. Better maps would be of more use (it's confusing when reading about all the places mentioned and you don't know where this is) as geography is seldom explained. But how anybody comes to idea to blame specifically one of the authors for plagiarising is mystery to me. It mentions Gillchrist's work in one or two places, but "Iran-Iraq War in the Air" has absolutely nothing to do with it. Nothing that can be found in this book was "lifted", nobody else described Iranians or Iraqis to such detail before.
Cooper and Bishop are acknowledged experts in describing tactical and technical issues faced by Iranian pilots and that is the biggest flaw of this book. It concentrates on Iran. Many people don't like this and declare authors for "propagandists". This should be understandable then authors have developed so many contacts in Iran (which is wonder in itself), but so this book shows only one part of picture.
In all, this is unique and excellent book, despite it's flaws. Not well done but highly recommended.
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