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100 1 $aMoore, Molly.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92094101
245 12 $aA woman at war :$bstorming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines /$cMolly Moore.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner's ;$aToronto :$bMaxwell Macmillan Canada ;$aNew York :$bMaxwell Macmillan,$c[1993], ©1993.
300 $axv, 336 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm
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500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aDuring the Gulf War, most journalists were confined to media pools. But not Molly Moore, the senior military correspondent of The Washington Post. Moore was the only reporter to accompany a senior commanding general as he led his troops into battle in Kuwait. This is her eyewitness account of the war as she lived it by the side of the top Marine general, Walter E. Boomer. There has never been a book quite like Molly Moore's, for hers is the unique story of what a woman experienced inside the Gulf War military machine - in a male-dominated military amidst an Islamic culture in which women are on a level with the family pet.
520 8 $aMolly Moore offers a detailed account of the buildup toward war in both Washington and the Gulf, and reveals the heroism as well as the calamity of the battlefield - the miscalculations, the failed communications, the distress and disarray among the troops and their officers. With an appealing combination of chilling authority and a warm understanding of the human dimensions of battle, she provides a frank and unprecedented view of the war planning councils as the action escalates. Here, too, are the tensions and exhilaration of daily life in a war zone - what it was like to wait for days for a gas mask when everyone else was well protected; how it felt to live in the desert, where, among other hazards, freezing winds made it impossible to take out a pair of contact lenses, and lack of privacy left women on duty with few choices about bathroom facilities.
520 8 $aA Woman at War showcases as well the fresh and exciting new voice of Molly Moore herself, the first woman Pentagon correspondent in the history of The Washington Post. For its unusually candid and graphic depiction of men - and for the first time, women - in battle, A Woman at War will be highly valued and long remembered.
650 0 $aPersian Gulf War, 1991$vPersonal narratives, American.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109066
600 10 $aMoore, Molly$xTravel$zPersian Gulf Region.
600 10 $aBoomer, Walter Eugene.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92094096
650 0 $aMarines$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107401
610 10 $aUnited States.$bMarine Corps$xHistory$yPersian Gulf War, 1991.
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