Joost R. Hiltermann

A Poisonous Affair

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how America stood by and allowed Saddam's Iraq to amass chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781107666962
• ISBN-10: 1107666961
• Artikelnr.: 41786076

Autorenporträt

Joost R. Hiltermann is a veteran commentator on human rights. While researching this book, he was working as Director of the Arms Divison of Human Rights Watch. He is currently the Middle East Project Director for the International Crisis Group. His publications include Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories (1991).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Halabja controversy
1. Crossing the chemical threshold
2. Setting the volume control
3. Chemical interlude
4. War in Kurdistan
5. Halabja
6. The Halabja demonstration effect
7. Iran and the use of gas
8. Fixing the evidence
9. The road to Kuwait
Conclusion: fall-out.

---

Introduction: the Halabja controversy; 1. Crossing the chemical threshold; 2. Setting the volume control; 3. Chemical interlude; 4. War in Kurdistan; 5. Halabja; 6. The Halabja demonstration effect; 7. Iran and the use of gas; 8. Fixing the evidence; 9. The road to Kuwait; Conclusion: fall-out.

Rezensionen

'... comprehensive and powerful delineation not only of what happened that day but of all those who helped bring it about.' Andrew Cockburn, The Nation