Kirit Bhatt

**Survival During Gulf War**Life of one Family in Kuwait During Iraqi Invasion and Occupation** (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

August 2nd,1990

Sadaam Hussein's Iraqi army invades Kuwait, throwing the lives of tens of thousands in chaos. With his superior army Sadaam Hussein overpowers the resistance and takes a firm hold of Kuwait within 48 hours of the invasion.

What transpires during the invasion and occupation of Kuwait by Iraqi army is surreal. Lives of tens of thousands of families were thrown into turmoil. Survival for those from western countries was at knife's edge. Any national from western countries caught was apprehended as a hostage.

My family faced the same danger of being picked up as hostages. Though of Indian origin, we were British Nationals!

This is the story of one such family, my family. We survived the invasion and occupation of Kuwait by Sadaam Hussein's notorious Iraqi army for three months. The story is about day to day survival, desperate people trying to flee the war ravaged country. This is the story of the evacuation of women and children under diplomatic protection from Kuwait.

The story is based on real life experience of our survival during the invasion and after the occupation of Kuwait by Sadaam Hussein.

The intent of this book is also to make the readers aware of the plight of hundreds of thousands of innocent people caught up in similar situation that currently exist in some countries in Middle East like Afghanistan and Syria.

I hope I have met that goal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kirit Bhatt
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386276814
• Artikelnr.: 54834481

Autorenporträt

With roots in India, Kirit was born in Kampala, Uganda in 1947.

This is the first book Kirit has authored. The book had been in planning since his escape from Kuwait, where he was trapped for three months with his family under Sadaam Hussein's regime. The book was put on backburner for 25 years while he was busy rebuilding his and his family's shattered life.

Kirit spent first 24 years of his life in Kampala where he worked as a Chemist for World Health Organization Water Research Project. He moved to Lusaka, Zambia in 1971 to work with the University of Zambia, then to London, UK in 1974. In London he worked for various colleges under the umbrella of University of London from 1974 to 1984.

Kirit received an offer to join Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuwait in 1984 while working at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London.The decision to uproot the family from London to an unknown country was a serious decision.

He resigned from his job with the Imperial College and moved to Kuwait in mid-1984. He and his family lived a comfortable life in Kuwait until that dreadful day of August 2, 1990, the day Sadaam Hussein's army invaded, and subsquently occupied Kuwait.

After his escape from Kuwait in November 1990 he returned to London to rejoin his family. Jobs were hard to come by at that time. He had to expand his horizones to USA.

He landed in Kansas City, Kansas with his family in mid-1991 where he was offered a job with an international Environmental Consulting company. Having lost everything in Kuwait, all their wordly possessions, cloths and some pots and pans, were packed in two suitcases, with which to rebuild their new life.

Currently Kirit lives with his wife, Ila, in Savannah,Texas, both now retired. Kirit currently is busy writing a fiction novel, titled "Shattered Dreams", which he plans to publish by the end of 2019.

Kirit and Ila brought up their two children, Trusha and Veeral, in Overland Park, Kansas. Both graduated from the University of Kansas. Trusha graduated with Communications as her major. She currently lives in Chicago, Illinois where she works as a Training and Development Specialist for a major company. Veeral graduated with a degree in Petroleum Engineering. He lives in Dalls, Texas where he works for a major Energy company as a Reservoir Engineer.