Crusade - The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

Zusatztext "Exhaustive, albeit consistently absorbing, record of the 42- day Gulf War that offers fresh, often startling, perspectives on the planning and conduct of what the author characterizes as ``a brilliant slaughter.'' Focusing almost entirely on military operations, Pulitzer- winning Washington Post correspondent Atkinson (The Long Gray Line, 1989) provides a chronological account of how the US-led coalition liberated Kuwait." Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor RICK ATKINSON is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for a series of articles on West Point's Class of 1966, which later became the basis for his book The Long Gray Line. A veteran staff reporter, foreign correspondent, war correspondent, and senior editor for the Washington Post, he wrote the paper's lead stories during the Gulf War. Klappentext A definitive account of the Gulf War told by Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Rick Atkinson. This previously untold story of the US war with Iraq in the early 1990s, Atkinson follows the 42-day war from the first night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombing runs, White House strategy sessions, firefights, and bitter internal conflicts. Zusammenfassung A definitive account of the Gulf War told by Pulitzer Prize–winning correspondent Rick Atkinson. This previously untold story of the US war with Iraq in the early 1990s, Atkinson follows the 42-day war from the first night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombing runs, White House strategy sessions, firefights, and bitter internal conflicts.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rick Atkinson
• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.10.1994
• EAN: 9780395710838
• ISBN: 978-0-395-71083-8
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Geopolitics, HISTORY / World, International Relations, Middle East, social and political philosophy, History of Science, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Diplomacy, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: MILITARY, HISTORY: Middle East / Iran, PHILOSOPHY: Political, HISTORY: Military / Persian Gulf War (1991), HISTORY / Military, History / 20th Century American, History / American