ISBN: 9781849048828 The Cauldron: NATO's Campaign in Libya (3 items)

London: Hurst & Company Publishers Ltd: 2018 9781849048828. Hardback. 1st edn. 1st printing. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), DW is NOT price-clipped. pp. xii + 388, illus with b&w photos and maps. No inscriptions or annotations etc. In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. NATO had never operated in North Africa, or without troops on the ground; it also had never had to move as quickly as it did that spring. It took seven months, 25,000 air sorties, 7,000 combat strike missions, 3,100 maritime hailings and nearly 400 boardings for Tripoli to fall. This book tells for the first time the whole story of this international drama, spanning the hallways of the United Nations in New York, NATO Headquarters in Brussels and, crucially, the two operational epicentres: the Libyan battlefield, and Joint Force Command Naples, which was in charge of the mission. Weighill and Gaub offer a… Read more

Hardback. New. Attacking conventional wisdom, Weighill and Gaub argue that NATO's intervention in Libya was soundly conceived and executed.

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