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Gulf War I Booklist

 

Books about the first Gulf War. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction.

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • The Fist of God
    Author: Forsyth, Frederick
    Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell $ 23.95 ISBN: 0553091263 Date: 1994
    star PW
    The author of such classics as The Day of the Jackal returns with a seamless blending of the real and the imagined, of political assassination and high-tech military might, set behind the scenes of the Gulf War. As coalition forces ready for battle against the Iraqi Army, a Western spy in Baghdad seeks a mysterious traitor named Jericho, who may hold the key to locating Saddam Hussein's secret weapon.
    Updated 4.7.03
  • Dear Mr. President: Stories
    Author: Hudson, Gabe
    Publisher: Knopf $ 19 ISBN: 0375413952 Date: 2002
    star PW
    From one of the brilliant newcomers featured in The New Yorker's Fiction Debut Writers of 2001" issue--eight stories and a novella that take on the Gulf War with audacity, inventiveness, humor, and a startling emotional resonance.
    Updated 4.7.03
  • We Pierce: A Novel
    Author: Huebner, Andrew
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24 ISBN: 0743212770 Date: 2003
    As he did with American by Blood, Huebner turns his family's long experience with violence and war into breath-taking literary fiction. In We Pierce, Huebner has chosen another subject that's sure to strike a chord with his readers: fighting for what you believe in, no matter the cost.
    Updated 4.7.03
  • The Sand Cafe
    Author: Macfarquhar, Neil
    Publisher: Public Affairs $26 ISBN: 1586483684 Date: 2006
    star LJ
    The Cairo bureau chief for the "New York Times" goes inside the private lives and professional mischief of war reporters waiting for the first Gulf War to begin in this bitingly funny first novel.
    Suggested Reading: Debuts
    Updated 2.28.06
  • Pearl of Kuwait
    Author: Paine, Tom
    Publisher: Harcourt $ 24 ISBN: 0151005184 Date: 2003
    California surfer Cody "Cowboy" Carmichael's life is forever changed when he meets Private Tommy Trang at boot camp. A powerful first novel by an award-winning writer, Paine has created an enthralling, joyful, and original story with the classic ingredients of love and war.
    Updated 4.7.03
  • Monkey in the Middle
    Author: Pryor, Josh
    Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 24 ISBN: 0786711736 Date: 2003
    Set at the cusp of the future on the seedier sides of Los Angeles, Monkey in the Middle is a suspenseful and hilarious tale of reckless genetic engineering, post-traumatic stress disorder, and tainted love. Down-and-out Gulf War veteran Dutch Flowers returns to L.A. with a bad case of "compassion fatigue"--and acute paranoia. - Publisher Marketing.
    Updated 4.7.03
  • Somewhere in a Desert
    Author: Sigaund, Dominique
    Publisher: Arcade List Price: $ 22.95 ISBN: 1559704926 Date: 1999
    star Library Journal
    Desert Storm has ended. A body lies in no-man's land in the desert, across the Iraqi border between the allied front and a small Saudi village. It hasn't decomposed or burned in the sun. Its eves are open, and its mouth is smiling. No wounds show how the man died. No dog tags or insignia identify which side he fought on. The man is John Miller, an American soldier who has gone missing in action. While his wife, Mary, waits at home in the States for news of her husband, John has disappeared and died an absurd death. - Publisher marketing.
  • The Consignment
    Author: Sutherland, Grant
    Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell $ 23.95 ISBN: 0553801872 Date: 2003
    Captain Ned Rourke of the U.S. Rangers always expected that war would be hell. But in the Gulf War he was appalled to find that his own men were being cut down by weapons made by the biggest and best armaments manufacturer in the world--the U.S.A.
    Updated 4.7.03

Nonfiction