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Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War
by Michael Kelly
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9781400030361 
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Awards
Winner of the National Magazine and the Overseas Press Club Awards
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
From the lethal fireworks that lit the sky over Baghdad on the war's first night to the elation with which Kuwait's citizens greeted their liberators — and the horror with which they counted their dead — Michael Kelly managed to be present at every critical moment of the Gulf War. He also managed to see it with a sharpness and candor that escaped most other observers. In this award-winning book, Kelly re-creates the Gulf War as tragedy, black comedy, and grand guignol, writing with daring, passion, and razor-edged observation.
Review:
"[H]aunting, beautifully written....[Kelly's] perceptive observations on the human costs and moral ambiguities of war speak for themselves. As compelling and revelatory an account of the Gulf War as has yet been published." Kirkus Reviews
Review:
"Rich in irony and insight, this journalistic account of the Gulf War is written in original, precisely detailed, highly visual language....[Kelly's] book has the power to make the war real for the American reader." Anne Gendler, Booklist
Review:
"This eyewitness account differs from the many other books on the Persian Gulf War in that it deals primarily with human-interest elements rather than military matters." Library Journal
Review:
"The only American journalist in the Middle East with a voice and a pair of eyes of his own. Kelly in the Gulf [is] the heir to Stephen Crane in Greece, Evelyn Waugh in Abyssinia, and Hemingway in Spain." Los Angeles Times
Review:
"Michael Kelly's superb piece of reportage...reminds us that when George Bush compared Saddam to Hitler, he was not being facetious....Mr. Kelly brings to his work the mind of a scholar, the eye of a painter, and the pen of a poet." Radek Sikorski, The National Review
Review:
"As much a work of literature as of journalism....Martyrs' Day gives a better sense of what happened than any book has so far, and in a way the best television never could match....[It is] a war book for our time." Boston Sunday Globe
Review:
"Understated and beautifully crafted...a profound meditation on the depths of human cruelty." Overseas Press Club Citation
Review:
"Michael Kelly has written the one book of literary value to come out the Gulf War. This is the best piece of war writing in a generation; not since Vietnam and Michael Herr's Dispatches has anyone conveyed the pity and terror of war, and the strangeness of the places where men fight, so well." Robert Hughes
Synopsis:
A journalist for The New York Times recounts his year in the Persian Gulf region during Bush's war, focusing on the people and places and capturing the moral ambiguity and human tragedy of war.
Synopsis:
In this classic account of the Gulf War from all sides of the conflict, Michael Kelly brings Operation Desert Storm to vivid life. He watches bombs fall on Baghdad; waits for Scud attacks in Tel Aviv, hears horrific tales of rape and torture in Kuwait, and travels with Kurdish rebels at war with Saddam Hussein themselves. In the new foreword and afterword, Kelly places the Gulf War in the context of the other wars of the twentieth century and makes a case for its being the opening salvo in the first war of the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Michael Kelly was an editor-at-large for The Atlantic Monthly and a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Writers Group. For his Post columns, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. He covered the Gulf War as a freelance writer for GQ, and his frontline dispatches for The New Republic won a National Magazine Award and an Overseas Press award. Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War was first published by Random House in 1993 and won the PEN-Martha Albrand award and a New York Times Notable Books listing. He was married to Madelyn Kelly and they have two sons, Tom and Jack. He died in 2003 while covering the war in Iraq.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781400030361
- Subtitle:
- Chronicle of a Small War
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Middle East
- Subject:
- Southeast Asia
- Subject:
- Military - Persian Gulf War
- Subject:
- Persian gulf war, 1991
- Subject:
- Kelly, Michael
- Subject:
- Asia - Southeast Asia
- Subject:
- Military - Persian Gulf War (1991)
- Copyright:
- 2001
- Edition Number:
- 2
- Edition Description:
- 2nd Vintage Books ed.
- Series Volume:
- #801
- Publication Date:
- December 2001
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 8.02x5.38x.90 in. .69 lbs.
