Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991 Paperback / softback
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Paperback / softback
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Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly described in this photographic history.
Over 180 photographs provide a remarkable visual account of Operation Desert Storm in the air, at sea and on land, and they show the vast array of military equipment deployed by both sides.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, who worked at the time as an analyst for British Defence Intelligence, describes the armed forces that were ranged against each other, in total over a million troops, over 7000 armoured vehicles, 4600 artillery pieces, and thousands of aircraft.
In a concise text he relates the key events in the short, intense conflict that followed - the preliminary air campaign, the elimination of the Iraqi navy, the coalition's ground offensive, the tank battles in which American Abrams and British Challengers engaged Soviet-designed T-72 and T-62s, the Iraqi retreat, the death and destruction at the Muttla Pass, and the liberation of Kuwait City.
The photographs, most of which have not been published before, give a powerful impression of the character of late-twentieth-century warfare. They also record a major conflict that has been overshadowed by the more recent war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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- Pages:160 pages, 180 colour and black-and-white illustrations
- Publisher:Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2014
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- ISBN:9781781593912
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, 180 colour and black-and-white illustrations
- Publisher:Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781781593912
