Into the Desert : Reflections on the Gulf War 9780199796335, 9780199796281

In the decade following the first Gulf War, most observers regarded it as an exemplary effort by the international commu

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Into the Desert : Reflections on the Gulf War
9780199796335, 9780199796281

Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly des

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*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents It w

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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of Operation Desert Storm in next to no time with this con

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Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War had a traumatic effect on the Middle East and its implications were part

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Into the Open is a philosophical and literary inquiry into the deeper meanings of genius. What precisely do we mean when

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"When Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, triggering the First Gulf War, a coalition of thirt

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Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that

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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echo

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In the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait allowing premature infants to die by removing them from th

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