Crusade - The Untold Story of The Gulf War

History

RICK ATKINSON

Asia

Harpercollins

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

CRUSADE: UNTOLD STORY OF THE GULF WAR

Middle East

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [Americas] origins as a people and a nation. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear. New York TimesIn June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire since ancient Rome. Less than two years later, Britains bright future turned dark: after a series of provocations, the kings soldiers took up arms against his rebellious colonies in America. The war would last eight years, and though at least one in ten of the Americans who fought for independence would die for that cause, the prize was valuable beyond measure: freedom from oppression and the creation of a new republic.Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about the Second World War has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. In this new book, he tells the story of the first twenty-one months of Americas violent effort to forge a new nation. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 177677, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the worlds most formidable fighting force and struggle to avoid annihilation.It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes one of Americas greatest battle captains; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves himself the nations wiliest diplomat; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost

British Are Coming

Henry Holt and Co.

The British Are Coming

William Collins

In the Company of Soldiers : A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq

Little,Brown & Company

The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the British and American armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery and Rommel.

An Army At Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

Military

ABACUS +

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy)

Americas

Little,Brown

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy, Volume 3)

Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.

Studies the effects of the Vietnam War on West Point's class of 1966 and on the academy, recounting the loss of idealism that prompted many to leave their military careers

The Long Gray Line

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Pocket

Crusade : The Untold Story of the Gulf War (Part 1)

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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