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Triumph Without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War
by U.S. News & World Report
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812919483
- ISBN 13
- 9780812919486
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About This Item
New York: Times Books/Random House, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. 15 Maps. The Gulf War--a "technological triumph" but a "hollow victory" -- this is a military and diplomatic history that combines battlefield detail with command level history. It is the inside story of the origins of the conflict with Iraq, of the diplomacy that resulted in the coalition of nations wanting to get Iraq out of Kuwait, and the planning and waging of the war itself. Clean, tight, solid volume in navy half cloth with silver titles, navy boards, spotless condition. Red and blue jacket is clean, not price-clipped, spine head/heel lightly chipped, some wrinkling along edges. 477 pages with index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1992, Times Books/Random House, USA,
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021407
- Title
- Triumph Without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War
- Author
- U.S. News & World Report
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812919483
- ISBN 13
- 9780812919486
- Publisher
- Times Books/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- PERSIAN GULF WAR, 1991 SADDAM HUSSEIN KUWAIT KING FAHD IRAQ BUSH ADMINISTRATION SAUDI ARABIA BAGHDAD GENERAL SCHWARZKOPF
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. American;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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