Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

Atkinson, Rick

ISBN 10: 0395710839 / ISBN 13: 9780395710838

Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York, 1994

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During the Persian Gulf War, the Pentagon imposed untold restrictions on the media's access to the battlefield. This book is an active account of the war, prizewinning journalist Rick Atkinson tells us of the military veil of secrecy and follows the unfolding battle every day and night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombs, White House strategy sessions, firefights and bitter interactions. As Atkinson expertly weaves individual stories into a thrilling epic narrative, we come to understand that the allied campaign against Saddam Hussein was a wholly different kind of war, one that transformed the very nature of modern warfare.
Only after the guns fall silent can the real story of a battle be told, and in this book Rick Atkinson does full justice to our remarkable triumph in Iraq. Astonishingly fresh, powerfully written, "Crusade" is both a compelling human drama and a masterly portrait of the American military at war.
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• Titolo: Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0395710839
• ISBN 13: 9780395710838
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Disegnatore: Diana Coe, Cover Design; Christopher Morris, Cover; Brad Wye, Maps; Robert Overholtzer, Book Design Photograph
• Condizione: molto buono
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: senza sovraccoperta
• Dimensioni: 3,73 L x 15,55 A x 23,5 P centimetri 3,73 centimetri di larghezza per 15,55 centimetri di altezza per 23,5 centimetri di profondità
• Peso: 26,385 once
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Military History

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.