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Tanker Wars
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Oil, shipping and the Iran-Iraq dispute; merchant shipping and the outbreak of hostilities 1980; the pre-tanker war phase 1981-83; Iraqi escalation and Iranian response 1984; shipping under fire 1985 and 1986; allied intervention 1987; endgame 1988; merchant shipping and Gulf security in the 1990s. Appendix: ships attacked during the Iran-Iraq war 1981-88.

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This title serves a source of data for those involved in marine law and insurance, historians of the region and naval warfare specialists. It focuses on the hundreds of merchant vessels which were attacked during the Iran-Iraq war.

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E. R. (Ted) Hooton has been a journalist for 40 years and a defence journalist for about 25 years. He has written numerous articles on military history and three highly regarded books on the history of the Luftwaffe – The Luftwaffe: A Study in Air Power 1933-1945 (2010), Phoenix Triumphant: The Rise and Rise of the Luftwaffe (1992) and Eagle in Flames: The Fall of the Luftwaffe (1997), as well as contributing to several others. He has also written a detailed history of air operations over the Western Front, War above the Trenches – Air Power and the Western Front Campaigns 1916-1918 (2010) and Stalin’s Claws (2012), an account of Stalin’s military purges and the Soviet wars prior to Barbarossa.

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