Author: Don Lomax
Publisher: Caliber Comics
ISBN: 1635291763
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed VIETNAM JOURNAL books. THIS ISSUE: "Read my lips: no more Vietnams!" August 1, 1990, Saddam Hussein, with his eye on the rich oil fields of Kuwait rolled into that neighboring country with the intention of annexing Kuwait as a province and dethroning the Emir and claiming its riches for himself. War was brewing once again on the American horizon. While in North Fork Idaho, Scott Neithammer, retired war correspondent resists the urging of his former editor to return to report on the nightmare of America’s most recent war. "First rate...alternates documentary-style reporting with documentary-style fiction. One of the five best war comics." - Don Thompson, The Comics Buyer's Guide.
Author: Don Lomax
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781544067605
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE Don Lomax collects his Desert Storm Journal comic series and brings back his central character from VIETNAM JOURNAL. August 1, 1990, Saddam Hussein, wanting the oil fields of Kuwait invades. War is brewing again on the American horizon and Scott 'Journal' Neithammer comes out of retirement to cover the first Persian Gulf War.
Author: Don Lomax
Publisher: iBooks
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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This is the war you didn't see on TV! Packed with meticulously-researched details, Desert Storm Journal thrusts you into the war in an intense, personal way that no news report ever can. When Scott "Journal" Neithammer arrives to cover Operation Desert Storm, the first war against Iraq, he finds himself also caught up in the war between the Pentagon and the press. Fed up with press restrictions, he heads off into the desert on his own, and gets an unwelcome firsthand taste of the full fury of modern American firepower. Then, years later, he once again finds himself dealing with the war in Iraq with the launching of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Author: Susie Kilshaw
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845455262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name “Gulf War Syndrome” (GWS). This book is an investigation into this recently emergent illness, particularly relevant given ongoing UK deployments to Iraq, describing how the illness became a potent symbol for a plethora of issues, anxieties, and concerns. At present, the debate about GWS is polarized along two lines: there are those who think it is a unique, organic condition caused by Gulf War toxins and those who argue that it is probably a psychological condition that can be seen as part of a larger group of illnesses. Using the methods and perspective of anthropology, with its focus on nuances and subtleties, the author provides a new approach to understanding GWS, one that makes sense of the cultural circumstances, specific and general, which gave rise to the illness.
Author: John Bulloch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317206290
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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After a million deaths and twice that number injured, after the destruction of much of the infrastructure of Iran and Iraq, disruption of trade throughout the Gulf and the involvement of the USA and USSR, was the Gulf War a pointless exercise, a futile conflict which achieved nothing and left the combatants at the end of it all back in exactly the same position from which they started in 1980? In this book, first published in 1989, the authors argue that the lack of territorial gain was irrelevant: the real advantages won by each side were far more important, intangible though they were. For Iran, the channelling of the energies of her people away from domestic concerns meant the continuation of the Islamic revolution and ensured the stability of the mullahs. In Iraq, the war propped up the increasingly shaky regime of Saddam Hussein. The outside world, especially the superpowers, was terrified of the spread of Muslim fundamentalism, so made no effort to prevent Iraq from trying to halt this spread. But Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the oil states also had vested interests in promoting the continuation of the war.
Author: Don Lomax
Publisher: Caliber Comics
ISBN: 1635291801
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Book Description
HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed VIETNAM JOURNAL books. August 1, 1990, Saddam Hussein, with his eye on the rich oil fields of Kuwait rolled his army into that neighboring country with the intention of annexing Kuwait as a province, while claiming its riches for himself. War was brewing once again on the American horizon. Scott 'Journal' Neithammer comes out of retirement to cover the first Persian Gulf War. He finds himself also caught up in the war between the Pentagon and the press! Fed up with press restrictions, he heads off into the desert on his own - and gets an unwelcome firsthand taste of the full fury of modern American firepower! Collects issues 1-4 of GULF WAR JOURNAL. "First rate...alternates documentary-style reporting with documentary-style fiction. One of the five best war comics." - Don Thompson, The Comics Buyer's Guide. "Stresses authenticity. Anyone who saw the real city of Khafji in Saudi Arabia will recognize landmarks in the comic book." - Ron Jensen, The Stars and Stripes.
Author: Frank N. Schubert
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160429545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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CMH Publication 70-30. Edited by Frank N. Schubert and TheresaL. Kraus. Discusses the United States Army's role in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 to February 1991. Shows the various strands that came together to produce the army of the 1990s and how that army in turn performed under fire and in the glare of world attention. Retains a sense of immediacy in its approach. Contains maps which were carefully researched and compiled as original documents in their own right. Includes an index.
Author: Marcel Saba
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Documenting the U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq from the perspective of some of the world's most renowned and respected photojournalists, Witness Iraq offers an extraordinary first-hand account of this controversial war. Beginning with the assassination attempt of Saddam Hussein and continuing through the massive roll out of tanks and troops in the desert, on to the fight of the Kurds in the North, and culminating in the fall of Baghdad, these images, many never-before-seen, reveal both the horrors of war and the triumph of the human spirit. With 150 full-colour photos.
Author: Stephen Alan Bourque
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Author: Charles Jaco
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028643243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Discusses the causes, military tactics, battles, and effects of the Persian Gulf War.
