Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

Rick Atkinson
$21.99
Publication Date: October 19th, 1994
Publisher:
Mariner Books
ISBN:
9780395710838
Pages:
608

Description

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.

About the Author

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.

Praise for Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

"Exhaustive, albeit consistently absorbing, record of the 42- day Gulf War that offers fresh, often startling, perspectives on the planning and conduct of what the author characterizes as ``a brilliant slaughter.'' Focusing almost entirely on military operations, Pulitzer- winning Washington Post correspondent Atkinson (The Long Gray Line, 1989) provides a chronological account of how the US-led coalition liberated Kuwait." Kirkus Reviews —