War in the Gulf, 1990-91 :: the Iraq-Kuwait conflict and its implications /

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,...

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1. Verfasser: Khadduri, Majid, 1908-2007
Weitere Verfasser: Ghareeb, Edmund
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Originally published: 1997.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (299 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780198024545
0198024541
019534877X
9780195348774
1280835095
9781280835094
9786610835096
6610835098
0199923868
9780199923861

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