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In order:
Elamite and Achaemenid Settlement on the Deh Luran Plain: by Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely
Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe: By Robert Drews
The Achaemenid Persian army: by Duncan Head
CTESIAS' PERSICA and Its Near Eastern Context: by Matt Waters
Darius in the Shadows of Alexander: by Pierre Briant
From Cyrus to Alexander: by Pierre Briant
Collected Papers on Alexander the Great: by Ernst BadIan
From Samarkhand to Sardis: by Susan Sherwin-White
& Amélie Kuhrt
Alien Wisdom, limits of Hellenization: by Arnaldo Momigliano
Reign of Arrows: by Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
Persianism in Antiquity: by Rolf Strootman and Miguel John Versluys
Sasanian Persia: by Touraj Daryaee
The Last Empire of Iran: by Michael R. Jackson Bonner
Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: by Robert G. Hoyland
Cambridge History of Iran 4
The Persian Presence in the Islamic World: by Richard G. Hovannisan
The Golden Age of Persia: by Richard N. Frye
Cambridge History of Iran 5
Cambridge History of Iran 6
Safavid World: by Rudi Matthee
The Memoirs of Shah Tahmasp i: by A.C.S Peacock
Shah Abbas: by David Blow
Sword of Persia: by Michael Axworthy
Karim Khan Zand, A history of Iran: by John R. Perry
War & Peace in Qajar Persia: by Roxane Farmanfarmaian
Russians in Iran: by Rudi Matthee and Elena Andreeva
Iran and the First World War: by Touraj Atabaki
Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah: by Cyrus Ghani
Men of Order: Touraj Atabaki
Iran Under Allied Occupation In World War II, The Bridge to Victory & A Land of Famine: by Mohammed Gholi Majd