Customer Review: Veteran writer and journalist Rick Atkinson's "Crusade" was published in 1993, just long enough after the end of the First Gulf War for the dust to settle and for the author to sort through what really happened. Although less complete as a military account than Scales' "Certain Victory" or Gordon... more info
Customer Review: For me, a budding linguist, it is pure joy to read this type of linguistic work. Brustad covers so many aspcts of spoken arabic in such a professional, ordered and useful manner. Examples are cited from the four dialect regions studied (Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti) to prove each point.... more info
Customer Review: I recomend this book because of Gen. Horner and in spite of Mr. Clancy. (I think "The Hunt For Red October" is great but its been down-hill from there...) I'm sure Mr. Clancy brought organizing talent and expertise in formatting chapters, paragraphs and pages to this book, but I felt I could tell... more info
Customer Review: I bought this book several years ago, as I was interested in reading from a general in logistics his memoirs on Dessert Storm. I did not approach this book seeking specific textbook information on: - Desert Storm
- Military Logistics From experience, the books that are written... more info
Customer Review: Addressing the memoir "The Gulf Between Us" by Cynthia and Cliff Acree is a bit difficult. It came out around 1998, and thus a completely different era than our current misadventure(aka quagmire) in Iraq. Since I am a moderate Democrat, I kind of have a bitter taste in my mouth when I think of the... more info
Customer Review: Just be warned... much of the book is actually reprinted material from other "Weapons of" books with little in the way of new illustrations or material. It does serve as a good general reference book.