From the Beginning to the End The concise volume of Iran-Iraq analytical war chronicle The book studies and analyses the political and military events in Iran-Iraq war from the planning and preparation of invasion to the end of war and cease-fire. The writer presents a concise summery of the whole war to the reader and discusses the general condition of war chronologically. The book consists of 9 chapters including: Invasion Background; Invasion and occupation; Liberation of occupied territories and continuation of war; Deadlock and stop; Exacerbating pressure on Iran; Expansion of the war; Balance of war in favor of Iran; Balance stability for Iran; The end of the war Doroudian gives us a comprehensive view about Iran-Iraq war and at the end of the book introduces a very useful detailed index based on the historical subjects and war events. From the beginning to the end is published by Holy Defense Research and Document Centre. It was first published in 1997 and reprinted for the 17th time in 2011.

Mohammad Doroudian. 1959- Doroudian is the Narrator, writer, researcher, and theoretician in the history of Iran-Iraq imposed war, who has won the 11th I.R.IRAN National Award for the Book of the Year (2012) and the 8th I.R.IRAN National Award for the Book of the Year in Holy Defense Field. Prior to the Islamic Revolution, he and his brothers, in accompany with friends like Mohsen Rashid, were involved in political activity against Pahlavi regime, which led to their arrest. After the Revolution. With the start of Iraqi invasion against Iranian territories, he went to the front along with his brothers. During the war, Doroudian and his friends like Hadi Nakhaee, Mohsen Rashid and … started to establish an organization for gathering documents, interviews, memories and military findings of the war in order to preserve the academic study of the event. Now the Center serves as one of the major source of research with millions of documents and historical, military, social indexes. Mr. Doroudian is graduated from Shahid Beheshti University in history and has written many books in the field of war.