Shifting Lines in the Sand: Kuwait's Elusive Frontier with Iraq

ISBN-13: 9781850435709 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 256 str.

David Finnie

Opis

An account of how the frontier between Iraq and Kuwait - the key cause of the Gulf war - was decided. In the 19th century Britain became aware of Kuwait's strategic importance and used both diplomacy and gunboats to help its ruler ward off Ottoman territorial claims.