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THE GULF WAR CHRONICLES: A Military History of the First War with Iraq Paperback – March 18, 2008

by Richard Lowry (Author)
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  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: iUniverse; 1st Printing edition (March 18, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1605280062
  • ISBN-13: 978-1605280066
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsEnlightening.
By A Customer on February 28, 2004
Format: Paperback
My boss recently asked me to research the first war with Iraq as background for an article. I found that this book, unlike the others I read, was well researched. In addition, the tone was not condescending, which was refreshing. Richard Lowry went beyond the story as told by CNN or CBS, digging deeper and uncovering the real story. Excellent book!
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5.0 out of 5 starsVery Accurate
By PC Pro on June 26, 2014
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I was in the Gulf War with the Big Red One. I keep a calendar diary while I was there and everything mentioned in the book was right on time and accurate. I learned a lot about what was going outside of my area while I was there. Not having Internet back then kept information flow pretty slow. A great read.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBest book on the actual battles
By Michael Conley on February 24, 2016
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I was in 3rd Armored Division and must say this is the best book on the war I have read. It is about the battles not the politics. It's day by day accounts are extremely detailed. I learned a lot and it gives a great perspective of the whole war. I cannot give it a high enough recommendation.
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5.0 out of 5 starsStrong book
By Justin Granger on January 23, 2004
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To begin I found this book by recommendation of a good friend of mine, and as a favor to her I read it.
after the first chapter I realized that this author has done an immense amount of research. the book is well informed and highly accurate. in addition to the attention to truth, this book has some of the most compelling stories from this conflict with Iraq. It presents stories that were not well known, but also sheds light on some that stories in the public view that were obscure. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about what we did in Iraq in the early nineties as well as a precursor to studies about our present situation in Iraq. I also say it is a great documentation of the strategies and real world processes of war.
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4.0 out of 5 starsReview of Gulf War Chronicles
By custerwolf on September 4, 2013
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Author Richard S. Lowry’s book The Gulf War Chronicles: A Military History of the First War with Iraq, fills in the blanks and answers many questions about Operation Desert Storm 1991. Chronicles starts with his reasons for writing this book and ends with a brief discussion about possible mistakes made by the Coalition after the guns went silent and gives a basic day to day accounting of the war in between. Lowry certainly does the dirty work in digging up the details in this detail oriented, if not stellar read.
Operation Desert Storm was the first real crisis for the United States after the cold war ended. Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein, a former ally of the United States, brutally attacked its neighbor Kuwait and destabilized the entire Middle East in fall 1990. Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm was the military reaction to that aggression. Lowry does an excellent job in piecing together the very complex puzzle of a very short but complicated war. Lowry’s Chronicles is an answer to the person that wants to know the details of this war. He notes the perception Operation Desert Storm is one of a vicious prolonged bombing campaign with our tanks and soldiers shooting Iraqis like fish in a barrel. Lowry presents the Iraqi’s in their true form; a large, well-supplied and very capable fighting force that was short of command structure due to nepotism and cronyism of Saddam Hussein. He argues that as the United States had been preparing to fight world war III, the Iraqi’s had become delusional and believed that WW I capabilities would be sufficient as long as they had a large enough army, something akin to the Chinese in Korea.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat work!
By SCOTT OHARA on February 19, 2004
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It is now over 13 years since Operation Desert Storm began on January 16, 1991. Given the length of time that has passed, one startling fact is evident in the Desert-Storm Community, there is no single work that provides an accurate day-by-day, hour-by-hour account of Operation Desert-Storm, from the onset of hostilities until the cease-fire declared at Safwan (extensively covered in Ally to Adversary: An Eyewitness Account of Iraq's Fall from Grace by Rick Francona), until now.
Richard Lowry's The Gulf War Chronicles strives to fill this void and to do so in detail, yet still provides a fast-paced read.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA solidly presented historical account
By Midwest Book Review on April 12, 2004
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Written by Richard S. Lowry (a veteran of the United States Nuclear Submarine Service during the Vietnam War), The Gulf War Chronicles: A Military History Of The First War With Iraq offers a minute-by-minute chronological description of Operation Desert Storm. Drawing upon information, interviews, and diversely informative resources ranging from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August of 1990 to the September 11th attacks upon the United States, The Gulf War Chronicles is a solidly presented historical account and offers great insight into the complex interplay of events upon a world stage -- events that continue to have a reverberating impact in the current global war against international fundamentalist Islamic terrorism.
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3.0 out of 5 starsGreat for U.S. Military War Buffs but Not Entirely Definitive
By An W. on August 26, 2010
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As a previous reviewer already mentioned, The Gulf War Chronicles isn't entirely an all-encompassing account of the 1991 Gulf War - with material mostly coming from U.S. sources and from the U.S. perspective - but it's probably the best book that attempts to be that at the moment. Although the author's intent was to make the book a "factual military history", I sensed pretty much right off the bat a skewing of facts to give readers an even more favorable impression of the U.S. effort. In the first chapter, the reason given for the first U.S. casualty of Desert Storm, LCDR Michael Speicher (who I admire as a hero), was one of several things that hinted to me that this might be a big U.S. Military propaganda piece.

The book makes the claim that the aircraft he was in was downed by a surface to air missile when almost all real evidence that exists - the wreckage that was found, accounts from members in his flight, and an account from the intel officer charged with determining the cause for the downed aircraft - has indicated that LCDR Speicher's plane was shot down by another aircraft. I got the feeling the account given in the book was an attempt to perpetuate the idea of U.S. invisibility in air combat, which made me wonder if I was going to get a lot more propaganda than a pure and balanced history of the war. Gladly, I didn't get that feeling as much as I thought would happen as I continued to read through.

Overall, it's a great overview and military account of Operation Desert Storm, especially from the Coalition perspective. I purchased this book, however, thinking it was a completely comprehensive and balanced analysis of the war which is why it didn't quite fit the bill for me.
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