This electronic book on CD-ROM presents the complete military history of the 1990-91 Gulf War as recorded by the U.S. military, from the invasion of tiny Kuwait by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein to its liberation by American-led forces. In addition to narratives and oral histories, there is a fantastic collection of recently declassified government files from the CIA, DIA, and military - including the U.S. Army, Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Central Command, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), DOD Intelligence, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force. Maps and color photographs illustrate the histories, with additional information on the medical condition which became known as Gulf War Illness. (The complete story of Gulf War Illness is available on a companion CD-ROM, ISBN 1592480454.)
In all, the disc has over 40,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.
This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for anyone interested in military history and warfare! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are.
