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Despite losing an eight-year war with Iran in 1988, Iraq remained the region s dominant military power. With missiles and nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Saddam s war-experienced army comprised 260,000 troops and 2,000 tanks. But his 1990 invasion of Kuwait ended with the most efficient war victory in US history. It was the first war for the US since Vietnam, with the UK its largest non-Arab ally, and the first war fought over a resource- oil. A new high tech war, it had a total of only 146 US casualties yet health problems have since dogged thousands of coalition soldiers, and uncounted thousands of Iraqi soldiers were killed. And following the protracted suffering of the Iraq invasion and nation-building operation over a decade later, many feel it was all for nothing Hugh McManners' original interviews for Gulf War One with combatants from both sides; Kuwait, Iraqi and Saudi citizens; military planners and politicians; human shield hostages and Gulf War Syndrome sufferers allow those both serving and caught up in the war to tell its history in their own words.

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The completely gripping story of Britain in the Gulf -- Chris Ryan

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Hugh McManners was a captain in148 Commando Forward Observation Battery, serving with the Special Boat Squadron during the Falklands War. Brought up in Australia, he joined the British Army in 1972 and in 1975 was sponsored by them to read geography at Oxford University. He subsequently spent thirteen years with 3 Commando Brigade before attending Staff College, working in the MoD and leaving the army in 1989. After co-producing various television documentary series for the BBC, ITV, Discovery and Channel 4, Hugh spent five years as the Sunday Times' defence correspondent. He was the co-presenter of the popular BBC2 survival series Bare Necessities. Hugh is the author of many military, military history and outdoors books, including Forgotten Voices of the Falklands, The Scars of War, Commando - Winning the Green Beret, Top Guns, Falklands Commando and The Commando Survival Manual. He lives in London, and has a cavalry offi cer son in the Light Dragoons.

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