This is an impressive study of the cases, course, and the consequences of the Iranian oil seizure. Using primary and secondary sources in an exemplary fashion, Professor Heiss has explicated the strategic and diplomatic aspects of a complicated triangular balancing act.
—(Diane Kunz, author of Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Economic Diplomacy)

Heiss sheds considerably new light on changing United States-UK relations in the Middle East during the early 1950's, facing interesting questions about the cultural dimensions of foreign policy. Readers of Empire and Nationhood will benefit enormously from Heiss's thorough examination of sources that have often been neglected.
—(Douglas Little, author of Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War)