European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books a v. F 3�l bestsellers is Vince Crawley an american Soldier searches surrendering iraqi soldiers feb. 25,1991, during the persian Gulf War. Reviews by Michael be Schloss new Day Martyr s Day chronicle of a Small War by Michael Kelly random House the quaff conflict 1990-19911 diplomacy and War in the now world order by Law rence Freedman and Efraim Karsh Princeton University press. Decades after world War ii the grand old War correspondent William Shirer spoke at an academic conference on nazi Germany. Amid the delivery of analytical papers on such topics As voting statistics in a German town Shirer was asked to reminisce about reporting from the German capital which he had re corded so famously in his 19.40 Berlin diary. Those present Felt that the combination of reportage from a world class journalist and analysis by scholars gave them a stereoscopic understanding of their subject that neither would have achieved alone. Read together Martyr s Day by new York times correspondent Michael Kelly and the Gulf conflict by British historians Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh do the same for the persian Gulf War. Kelly s Book records the passage of an acutely sensitive journalist and literary artist through Baghdad Amman Tel Aviv Kuwait City Tehran and other Mideast locales during the blighted Winter and Spring of 1991. Freedman and Karsh have used newspaper reportage and other contemporary open sources in an Effort to write the first rough draft of the history of the Gulf War. Martyr s Day superbly conveys the bizarre and poignant mix of High political principle and base emotion that underlay the Gulf conflict As fought by iraqis jordanians israelis kurd and the other peo Ples of the Mideast. Kelly went to the area to report the War for the new Republic and the Boston Globe. In this beautifully written Book he Demon Strates a Shirer like ability to be in the right place at the right time to understand the full meaning of what he sees and to Render it in simple and unforgettable detail. At the Start just before the bombing of Baghdad Kelly portrays the departing chief of . Diplomats in Baghdad Joseph Wilson who stayed up late the night before packing in his office drinking wine and ranting about the failure of it All and this morning he Felt  after the Campaign begins the chief of the iraqi ministry of information casts off his prewar delusions you had better say goodbye to me now. Because the next time you see me i May be dead. If i am dead visit my  in Amman Kelly is offered a Button Israel is a cancer and scud is the answer and a copy of protocols of the elders of Zion the Price is inside the cover. It is a Good Book. A very old Book. It will Tell you the True secrets of the jews. He sees a to shirt Saddam wanted dead or alive $100 Reward in Tel Aviv which he finds As fashion conscious As  women remake their Gas kits at Home covering them with fabric and pieces of braid or ribbon or Metal Chain so they could be swung from the shoulder like a purse. The woman in the elevator had one of Emerald Green densely decorated with Glossy Black squiggles that looked vaguely japanese Kelly provides an unparalleled human under standing of the Gulf War capturing themes scenes and vignettes that would otherwise be lost to future generations. The author describes a life size cutout of Marilyn Monroe and two flags on the top of a jeep being driven triumphantly into Kuwait City. An iraqi lieutenant tells the author we do not wish to fight. And my company i ordered them not to fight too and they All agreed. Why to fight for what. For Kuwait a witness recounts iraqi torture they would take the Man and take his fingernails off and take the women to the head office and then put electricity on their skin and afterwards make sex with them and then kill  the distinguished team of Freedman and Karsh aspire two years after the Gulf War to write the kind of Book that historians normally wait to write until decades later. They examine the War from the Point of View of almost every government involved. They emphasize the degree to which the Gulf conflict encompassed both issues of the moment and Long term issues whose Resolution would help to shape the Post cold War world. Paperbacks High ground by John Mcgahern Penguin. The stories in this collection Deal with betrayal and conflict Between lovers generations and the continually warring halves of the author s native Ireland. Pride of family four generations of american women of color by Carol Lone Avon. Lone recalls the Strong women of her family whose common Bond a fiercely Independent spirit a led each of them to emulate and quarrel with her Mother. Also celebrating generations of Black women is double stitch Black women write about mothers & daughters edited by Patricia Bell Scott and others Harper perennial which includes poems stories and essays by such writers As Maya Angelou and Alice Walker. 1959 by Taulani Davis Harper perennial. This is the Story of the civil rights movement As told by Willie Tarrant a 12-year-old Black girl whose life is rocked by change. The new York times new York times list hardback fiction 1 the Bridges of Madison county by Robert James Waller last week 1weeks on list 2? ,2 Origon tear by Dean Koontz last week 2 weeks in list 4 3 Degrutt of guff by Richard North Patterson last week t3 weeks on list 3 4 close combat by w.e.8. 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