War in the Gulf, 1990-91 : the Iraq-Kuwait conflict and its implications / / Majid Khadduri, Edmund Ghareeb
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| Autore: |
Khadduri Majid <1908->
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| Titolo: |
War in the Gulf, 1990-91 : the Iraq-Kuwait conflict and its implications / / Majid Khadduri, Edmund Ghareeb
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| 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 | |
| Altri autori: |
GhareebEdmund
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| 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: | 0-19-992386-8 |
| 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.: | 9910821143903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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