Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
- ISBN-10
- 0395710839
- ISBN-13
- 9780395710838
- Series
- Crusade
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 575
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Rick Atkinson
Description
Integrating interviews with individuals ranging from senior policymakers to frontline soldiers, a look at the Persian Gulf War shows how the conflict transformed modern warfare
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