Reddit reviews Iranian Tigers at War: Northrop F-5A/B, F-5E/F and Sub-Variants in Iranian Service since 1966 (Middle East@War)

I actually read a book on this. The F5Es gave a good account of themselves here but I do recall the losses being very high on the account of AA systems the Iraqis possesed.

Another good conflict which the F5Es did extremely well was the Ethiopia-Somalia conflict, which there is also a good book on. The Ethopians did well with good GCI and actually came out on top, which is quite amazing given how outnumbered the F5s were.

The F-5E was involved in a few shooting wars, maybe some of these will interest you? It flew in the late years of the Vietnam War for the South, in the Ogaden War for Ethiopia against Somalian MiG-21s, in the Iran-Iraq War for Iran, in the Gulf War with the Saudi and Bahrani air forces, and in the Yemenite War of 1979 where Taiwanese mercenaries were flying F-5E for Northern Yemen against Cuban mercenaries flying for the South. It has also seen quite a lot of counter-insurgency action in the hands of Morocco, Kenya and the Philippines at least, plus crises that could have boiled over like the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.

EDIT: This book might have the details you're after! It's called "Iranian Tigers at War: Northrop F-5A/B, F-5E/F and Sub-Variants in Iranian Service since 1966".

I can understand that.

However, I think the F-5E and the F-4E was used extensively as well, especially in the latter times of the war when the F-14's service was exclusively to aid in the tanker wars and the F-4's and F-5's were used to defend the mainland.

I have stories of the war from Iranian pilot's perspectives on here.

Also,

https://www.amazon.com/Iranian-Tigers-War-Northrop-Sub-Variants/dp/1910294136

https://www.amazon.com/Iranian-Phantom-Units-Combat-Aircraft-ebook/dp/B01DPPPY7A/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1572278789&refinements=p_27%3AFarzad+Bishop&s=digital-text&sr=1-2&text=Farzad+Bishop

There's a relatively new book largely based on official IRIAF documentation, covering Northrop F-5A/B, RF-5A & F-5E/Fs in service in Iran:
http://www.amazon.com/Iranian-Tigers-War-Northrop-Sub-Variants/dp/1910294136?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

It is not citing the total number of sorties flown, but making it clear that the type predominantly flew CAS and interdiction, and suffered significant losses to ground-based air defences, but also Iraqi MiGs. A total of 77 F-5Es, 6 F-5Fs, 1 RF-5A and 1 F-5B were written off during the war (to all reasons, including accidents). 55 pilots were lost too, of whom 46 were KIA.

The book mentions only three kills against Iraqi MiGs and Sukhois.