The shield and the sabre
Subtitle: the Desert Rats in the Gulf 1990-91
By: by Nigel Pearce ; with a foreword by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and an afterword by John Keegan.
Publisher: HMSO
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Army -- History -- Persian Gulf War, 1991.; Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force -- History -- Persian Gulf War, 1991.; Great Britain. -- Royal Navy -- History -- Persian Gulf War, 1991.; Persian Gulf War, 1991.; Operation Desert Shield, 1990-1991.; Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991.
Description: "In between October 1990 and February 1991, the British Army transported 35,000 troops and their equipment from Europe to Saudi Arabia in its largest logistic operation since the Second World War ... This book is effectively the British Army's account of its role in containing further Iraqi aggression after the unprovoked invasion of Kuwait, and liberating the sheikhdom from Saddam Hussein's occupying forces ... [This account is] illustrated with 200 photographs, maps, and technical drawings"--Jacket.