Download or read book The Brave Women of the Gulf Wars written by Karen Zeinert and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the roots of the Persian Gulf War and the role women played in the military, as correspondents, as medics, and on the homefront.
Download or read book The Role of Women in the Gulf War written by Hallie Murray and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though women had been involved in war efforts in every conflict in American history, more women participated in the Gulf War than in any war before it. When the Gulf War began in 1990, women in the military were still not allowed to fight on the front lines, in positions that directly engaged the enemy, but the roles they held still proved challenging and dangerous. This engrossing book tells the stories of the women who fought bravely in the air, on land, at sea, and in enemy camps as prisoners of war, as well as honors those who gave their lives for their country.
Download or read book American Women of the Gulf War written by Heather Hasan and published by Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles American women who served in the armed forces during the Persian Gulf War, where more women were deployed to combat and in more capacities than in any previous war.
Download or read book She Went to War written by Rhonda Cornum and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhonda Cornum was a soldier, a surgeon, a helicopter pilot, a wife, a mother - and a prisoner of war during the Gulf War. Not only does this book explore Major Cornum's fears during her capture, but it gives us a unique insight into Middle Eastern culture. Major Cornum is a woman of immense courage, competence and conviction, and her performance helps convince us that women can, indeed, be warriors.
Download or read book Women at War written by James Wise and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wise and Baron relate the compelling war experiences of thirty American female soldiers in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, highlighting their extraordinary display of dedication to their mission and to the soldiers and sailors with whom they served. While the book's focus is on today's women in combat, it also reaches back to Korea, Vietnam and World War II to offer stories of inspiring women who served at the "cusp of the spear" as they fought and died for their country.
Download or read book Women and the Gulf War written by Mary Sohlberg and published by . This book was released on 1991* with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impotent Warriors written by Susie Kilshaw and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Women in the Military written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the deployment of women in the military to the Persian Gulf during Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm. Addresses women's roles & performance; ability to endure deployment conditions; effect on unit cohesion; & effect on a unit's ability to deploy. Charts, tables & map.
Download or read book A Woman at War written by Molly Moore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist who accompanied a senior commanding general as he led his troops into battle during Desert Storm gives an insider's view of the heroism and tragedy that she witnessed on the front line. Molly Moore, senior correspondent for The Washington Post, didn’t think she’d be the only US journalist with a close-up view of the Gulf War, but when Lt. Gen. Walter Boomer, commander of the US Marine forces, invited her to shadow him while his troops planned and executed the invasion of Kuwait, that’s exactly the situation she found herself in. The result of this brave journalistic effort is a vivid and dramatic account of the Gulf War—one that does justice to the diligent, gutsy marines that successfully drove Saddam Hussein’s military from the country, without romanticizing the horrors of battle. Tense, chaotic, and thrumming with emotional resonance, Moore’s examination of the invasion offers indispensable insight into the 100-hour invasion that formed the overture to America’s War on Terror.
Download or read book Women in the Military written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baghdad Diaries written by Nuha al-Radi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the effects of war on ordinary people. She recounts the day-to-day realities of living in a city under siege, where food has to be consumed or thrown out because there is no way to preserve it, where eventually people cannot sleep until the nightly bombing commences, where packs of stray dogs roam the streets (and provide her own dog Salvi with a harem) and rats invade homes. Through it all, al-Radi works at her art and gathers with neighbors and family for meals and other occasions, happy and sad. In the wake of the war, al-Radi lives in semi-exile, shuttling between Beirut and Amman, travelling to New York, London, Mexico and Yemen. As she suffers the indignities of being an Iraqi in exile, al-Radi immerses us in a way of life constricted by the stress and effects of war and embargoes, giving texture to a reality we have only been able to imagine before now. But what emanates most vibrantly from these diaries is the spirit of endurance and the celebration of the smallest of life’s joys.
Download or read book Yasmeena s Choice written by Jean P. Sasson and published by Liza Dawson Associates. This book was released on 2013 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasmeena was an innocent abroad. She was a college educated, English-speaking flight attendant graced with an unusual amount of confidence and sophistication. She was also a virgin and a conservative Muslim daughter and sister. When Yasmeena's flight out of Kuwait was delayed, it was because Saddam Hussein had just invaded Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers threw her into a woman's prison where the guards committed ghastly sexual attacks and tortured the women in excruciating ways.
Download or read book Story Of The Gulf War written by Syreeta Kaszinski and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rare glimpse into the real-time thoughts of a soldier - a junior Intelligence Officer thrown into the front lines of history. This book breaks relatively new ground in demonstrating the traumatizing effect war can have on our female soldiers, sailors, marines, and air warriors. Why is this an important read? Desert Storm was the precursor of the wars to come; the wars that have so far consumed many years of the opening of the 21st Century where more and more women combatants are taking on key roles in waging our nation's wars; and they are consequently bearing both the physical and psychological wounds of war. The author takes the readers informatively through the stateside buildup, her deployment, the Desert Shield phase, and the counterattack of the ground phase of Desert Storm. As a combat intelligence officer, her war began before infantry boots and armored treads rolled up Iraqi forces on the sands of Kuwait. Her unit was responsible for analyzing the terrain, identifying enemy troop positions, and key enemy command and control targets, supply depots, and lines of communications, all of which were necessary for the pre-invasion and invasion softening-up activities. Read this book if you seek a new and different perspective on war. Read it, especially if you are one of the growing-band of women war-fighters.
Download or read book Crusade written by Rick Atkinson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Military Women in Combat written by Elizabeth Marie Himchak and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Few Good Women written by Evelyn Monahan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories. Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle of America’s “few good women.” Women today make up more than fifteen percent of the U.S. armed forces and serve alongside men in almost every capacity. Here are the stories of the battles these women fought to march beside their brothers, their tales of courage and fortitude, of indignities endured, of injustices overcome, of the blood they’ve shed and the comrades they’ve lost, and the challenges they still face in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Desert Warriors written by USA Today and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
