For details of the Luftwaffe air campaign in Iraq, see: Martin Drewes, Sand
und Feuer: Jagdflieger im Irak und über Deutschland (Moosburg:
Neunundzwanzigsechs Verlag, 2011); Christof Gunkel, ‘Nazis über
Bagdad: Hitlers vergessene Irak-Mission’, Einestages: Zeitgeschichten auf
Spiegel-Online (11 May 2011).
For details of the 1941 Abwehr mission to Iraq, see Kohlhaas, Hitler-
Abenteuer, 7–125; Intermediate Interrogation Report CI-IIR/44, Abw II
activities in the Near East, 18 January 1946, Record Group 263, Entry
ZZ-18, Box 35, National Archives and Records Administration, College
Park, MD [NARA].
Ib Monthly Summary: June 1941, CICI Iraq, 1 July 1941, AIR 29/2510,
TNA.
For the military history of the Anglo-Iraqi conflict (‘bangs’) from the
British point of view, I recommend the following English-language sources:
Report on the operations of HABFORCE, Sir John Glubb Collection,
GB165-0118, Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony’s College, Oxford
[MECA]; Somerset de Chair, The Golden Carpet (New York: Harcourt
Brace, 1945), 135; Winston S. Churchill, ‘The Grand Alliance’, in The
Second World War (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), 204–15 pas-
sim; John Bagot Glubb, Britain and the Arabs: A Study of Fifty Years, 1908
to 1958 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1959), 237–48; Phillip
Guedalla, Middle East 1940–1942: A Study in Air Power (London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1944), 137–48; Ashley Jackson, Persian Gulf Command:
A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq (New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2018), 66–106 passim; James D. Lunt, Glubb Pasha: A
Biography: Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, Commander of the
Arab Legion, 1939–1956 (London: Harvill, 1984), 100–7; Robert Lyman,
First Victory: Britain’s Forgotten Struggle in the Middle East, 1941 (London:
Constable, 2006), 69–146; Dharm Pal, Campaign in Western Asia
(Calcutta: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section, India and Pakistan,
1957), 57–120; vol. 2 (‘The Germans Come to the Help of Their Ally,
1941’) and vol. 3 (‘British Fortunes Reach Their Lowest Ebb, September
1941–September 1942’) of Ian S.O. Playfair, 6 vols., The Mediterranean
and the Middle East: History of the Second World War (London: HMSO,
1954–1988), on which many of Majid Khadduri’s narratives depend in
Independent Iraq: A Study in Iraqi Politics since 1932 (London: Oxford
University Press, 1951), 126–252; Simon Rigge, War in the Outposts
(Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1980), 18–21, 48–74; Trevor Royle, Glubb
Pasha (London: Little, Brown, 1992), 233–65; Christopher F. Shores,
Dust Clouds in the Middle East: The Air War for East Africa, Iraq, Syria,
Iran and Madagascar, 1940–42 (London: Grub Street, 1996), 163–97;
Geoffrey Warner, Iraq and Syria 1941 (London: Davis-Poynter, 1974),
