Ibragimbeyli, Kh. M. The Collapse of "Edelweiss" and the Middle East (Krakh "Edelveysa" i Blizhniy Vostok). 1977. In Russian.

Ибрагимбейли, Хаджи Мурат. Крах «Эдельвейса» и Ближний Восток.
Москва: Наука, 1977.
319 с.: ил., фотоиллюстрации, 10 карт. Издательский твердый переплет. Узкий энциклопедический формат. 
Состояние: хорошее.
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Ibragimbeyli, Khadzhi Murat. The Collapse of "Edelweiss" and the Middle East (Krakh "Edelveysa" i Blizhniy Vostok).
Moscow: Nauka, 1977.
319 pp.: illustrated, with photographic plates and 10 maps. Publisher's cloth binding. Narrow encyclopedic format. 
Condition: Good.

This substantial monograph by the Soviet military historian Khadzhi Murat Ibragimbeyli (1929–2007), Doctor of Historical Sciences and one of the leading Soviet specialists on the military history of the Caucasus in the Second World War, examines the military and political events in the Near and Middle East on the eve of — and following — the Nazi German invasion of the USSR. The work reconstructs the preparation and execution of the Third Reich's aggressive plans for the seizure of the Caucasus and the projected extension of Axis operations into the countries of the East; analyzes the German–Italian imperialist rivalry and the Anglo-German contest in the region; describes in detail the subversive activities of German agent networks in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey; and systematically refutes the Nazi thesis of a "Caucasian experiment" of the Reich, tracing instead its catastrophic collapse. Particular emphasis is placed on the historical role of the USSR and its armed forces in the failure of German-Italian colonial designs, on the combat fraternity of the peoples of the Soviet Union, and on the role of the Communist Party, the Stavka of the Supreme High Command, and the front and army commands in organizing resistance and bringing the Battle of the Caucasus to a victorious conclusion. Drawing on archival documents, captured German sources, Soviet military records, and an extensive bibliography of 904 titles, supplemented by ten campaign maps and a selection of photographic illustrations, the book remains one of the most thoroughly documented Soviet-era studies of Operation Edelweiss and of the broader strategic significance of the Middle Eastern theater in the Eastern Front equation. Issued by Nauka — the principal academic press of the USSR Academy of Sciences — it is an indispensable reference for historians of the Second World War, the Caucasus, Soviet–German relations, and the geopolitics of the wartime Middle East.