Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East

The year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers begin to take interest in the political regimes of the Middle East. British agents have controlled Iranian oil exports for a generation, but the Shahs hold on peace is shaky as a charismatic leader enters the scene. OPERATION AJAX is the story of the CIA coup that removed the democratically elected Mossadegh and reinstated the monarchy.

Softcover. English. Verso. 2015. ISBN: 9781781689233. 248 pp. Good. Book No: 58176