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Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War by: Rick Atkinson Price: £19.95 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70442373 EAN: 9780395602904 ISBN: 0395602904 Label: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) Number Of Pages: 575 Publication Date: November 25, 1993 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) Studio: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) Sales Rank: 1140522 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Atkinson's Crusade shows good, bad & ugly of '91 war13 years and two Administrations ago, the entire world watched as the first President Bush marshaled a global coalition to confront Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and gave him an ultimatum: leave Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991, or we'll force you out. Three months had passed since Iraq had invaded its tiny but rich neighbor, claiming the Kuwaitis were slant-drilling into Iraqi oil fields just across the border. In reality, as Rick Atkinson points out in Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War, Saddam was strong-arming his way out of repaying loans made to Iraq by Kuwait and other moderate Arab countries during his disastrous war with Iran. He may have also been angered by OPEC's lowering of the price of crude oil, which reduced ... Read More: Rating: - I was in the air, over there, and this book is a shack!I flew combat sorties in OPERATION DESERT STORM and this book correctly details the microcosism of my involvement in the conflict. While Mr. Atkinson does not detail all of the contributions of my weapons platform, he does go into as much detail as anyone else has. What he does write in this book, he is right on target. He also is able to show some of the human side of the story, and not just the technical aspects of it. Overall, the book is very easy to read, and I did not wish to put it down until I finished it. Adding the technical merit and accuracy of the volume makes it the best overall text on OPERATION DESERT STORM I know of. Other texts take a more technical view of portions of the campaign, but none ... Read More: Rating: - My favorite Gulf War BookCrusade is a readable, riveting narrative of the events of the Persian Gulf War. It it one of the few texts on the subject which doesn't appear to have any other agenda than the truth. Political analysis, technical detail and first person accounts are woven together to enlighten and educate the reader. As a counterpoint, the book does suffer from its closeness to the event as time has revealed new facts and insights about the war. |
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