War in the Gulf, 1990-91
Subtitle: the Iraq-Kuwait conflict and its implications
By: Majid Khadduri, Edmund Ghareeb.
Contributors: Ghareeb, Edmund.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Persian Gulf War, 1991
Description: 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.

Khadduri and Ghareeb offer a far more accurate and complex portrait of the Iraq-Kuwait conflict, providing a wealth of background information not readily available before.

War in the Gulf is a balanced, eye-opening account of one of the central events of recent years. It corrects the Western views of most reporting, explaining the frame of mind of the participants as no one has done before and causing us to examine anew such questions as who was responsible for the conflict, and what might have happened if the United States had not intervened so rapidly.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-294) and index.