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Autore: | Khadduri Majid <1908-> |
Titolo: | War in the Gulf, 1990-91 [[electronic resource] ] : the Iraq-Kuwait conflict and its implications / / Majid Khadduri, Edmund Ghareeb |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (314 p.) |
Disciplina: | 956.70442 |
Soggetto topico: | Persian Gulf War, 1991 |
Military history | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | GhareebEdmund |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-294) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; PART I: ORIGINS OF THE GULF WAR; PART II: IMMEDIATE CAUSES OF THE GULF WAR; PART III: STAGES OF THE GULF WAR; PART IV: RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE GULF WAR; Epilogue; Notes; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | For most Americans, the war against Iraq lingers in memory as a vast morality play, a drama offering ready made heroes and villains: a glowering dictator in military uniform, hapless Kuwaiti refugees with tales of persecution, plucky pilots with high-tech wizardry, and a defiant American president, ringing Churchillian as he drew a line in the sand. But this characterization of the war is greatly oversimplified, a one-dimensional portrait, lacking in context and nuance. In War in the Gulf, 1990 91, eminent scholars Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb paint a very different picture, one that brin |
Titolo autorizzato: | War in the Gulf, 1990-91 |
ISBN: | 1-280-83509-5 |
9786610835096 | |
0-19-802454-1 | |
0-19-534877-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910458496103321 |
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