The events in the book, 'War In The Gulf', took place in the 1990s.
The place was the Middle East, specifically, Iraq and Kuwait. Before the time of the Persian Gulf War, the Middle East was a place riddled with sensless violence. Holy Wars took place every couple of years. After the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq became the undisputed power of the Middle East. After the time of the Persian Gulf War, Iraq was a beaten country. Their cities lie in ruin an their people demoralized. Recently, Iraq, after being bored with having no one to pick on, went to attacking the Kurds in northern Iraq as they have for many years before.
Characters
Since this is a non-fiction book, there were not really any characters.
Although, there were some people that were mentioned numerous times
throughout the book. The first, of course, would be Saddam Hussein.
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