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The Edge of War: Kuwaiti s Underground Resistance, Khafji 1990-1991
Smuggling, secret identities, and the true story of Kuwait’s resistance The Edge of Kuwait’s Underground Resistance (Khafji 1990~1991) tells the little-known story of the brave men and women who joined the resistance and fought against the overwhelming might of the Iraqi military. Often relying on savvy rather than strength, Kuwait's resistance made a measurable difference in the battle for liberation, and this is their story.
500 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2011
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August 11, 2013
The Edge of War: Kuwait’s Underground Resistance (Khafji 1990~1991) tells the hardly known story of brave men and women who joined the resistance and fought against the overwhelming Iraqi military.
I personally remember very well the news and pictures on tv when Saddam Hussein's troops ambushed and occupied Kuwait in August 1990. I remember seeing those "strange" landmark water towers on the news with troops coming in from the sea.
When I visited Kuwait for the first time a few years later I always had the picturs of those towers surrounded by Iraqi tanks on my head. Kuwait remembers until today their martyrs, the "Shahids" who left their life to save their homeland Kuwait from the hideous monster in Baghdad.
Ofcourse, as an outsider I didn't know anything about the Kuwait's Underground Resistance. Like most people I was to get information from the news like CNN or the BBC and had to rely on those information.
This book is a memorial and reminder on the heroism and sacrifice of Kuwaitis in the months before their liberation from Iraq's invasion forces in 1990 and 1991.
The author Alex Darwin (which is a pen name of Adel Darwish, a veteran British Middle-East correspondent who knows what he is writing about and with good personal contacts throughout the Arab world) tells the stories of brave Kuwaities. They were shopkeepers, military veterans,civil servants, members of the royal family, men and women. Some of whom lost their life in those months or vanished in prisons like Abu Ghraib.
There are interesting stories on how the "hostages" in Kuwait where provided with food and money, telecomunication and ofcourse, how information from inside the occupied country was smuggled outside.
Very interesting to read are the chapters on the work and position of the coalition. After all, this was within the phase of the end of the Cold War and Russia still had some assets in the Middle-East. George Bush and Margaret Thatcher though opposed any thought of appeasement, remembering well the failed policy on Adolf Hitler in the time pre-WWII.
Saddam Hussein had failed to induce Israel in joining the war as he had hoped this would break the solid coalition of Arab and Western forces.
A very interesting book to read and dedicated "to those who did not have the time to write their own storries" and I would suggest to the still missing Kuwaiti prisioners of war.
I personally remember very well the news and pictures on tv when Saddam Hussein's troops ambushed and occupied Kuwait in August 1990. I remember seeing those "strange" landmark water towers on the news with troops coming in from the sea.
When I visited Kuwait for the first time a few years later I always had the picturs of those towers surrounded by Iraqi tanks on my head. Kuwait remembers until today their martyrs, the "Shahids" who left their life to save their homeland Kuwait from the hideous monster in Baghdad.
Ofcourse, as an outsider I didn't know anything about the Kuwait's Underground Resistance. Like most people I was to get information from the news like CNN or the BBC and had to rely on those information.
This book is a memorial and reminder on the heroism and sacrifice of Kuwaitis in the months before their liberation from Iraq's invasion forces in 1990 and 1991.
The author Alex Darwin (which is a pen name of Adel Darwish, a veteran British Middle-East correspondent who knows what he is writing about and with good personal contacts throughout the Arab world) tells the stories of brave Kuwaities. They were shopkeepers, military veterans,civil servants, members of the royal family, men and women. Some of whom lost their life in those months or vanished in prisons like Abu Ghraib.
There are interesting stories on how the "hostages" in Kuwait where provided with food and money, telecomunication and ofcourse, how information from inside the occupied country was smuggled outside.
Very interesting to read are the chapters on the work and position of the coalition. After all, this was within the phase of the end of the Cold War and Russia still had some assets in the Middle-East. George Bush and Margaret Thatcher though opposed any thought of appeasement, remembering well the failed policy on Adolf Hitler in the time pre-WWII.
Saddam Hussein had failed to induce Israel in joining the war as he had hoped this would break the solid coalition of Arab and Western forces.
A very interesting book to read and dedicated "to those who did not have the time to write their own storries" and I would suggest to the still missing Kuwaiti prisioners of war.
November 2, 2013
I don't want to talk about how many times I had to read this novel.
I have no issue with the content. Some of it was interesting...some.
I have no issue with the content. Some of it was interesting...some.
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