Sea-hill Press Calm before the storm: desert storm diaries & other stories, hardcover/marlin fitzwater

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Description Calm Before the Storm: Desert Storm Diaries and Other Stories In August 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and President George H.

Bush's press secretary started a diary.

That compilation of private notes, memos and briefings from the Persian Gulf Crisis to the resulting Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm serve as the backdrop of a story that is as much about presidential leadership and American principles as it is about those pivotal moments in history.

Marlin Fitzwater is one of the longest serving White House press secretaries, serving under both Presidents H.

Bush and Ronald Reagan, for ten years, 1983-93.

His front row seat to some of America's most defining moments provides an intimate look at what transpired inside the White House in the wake of Saddam Hussein's audacious moves to control a portion of the world's oil reserves and substantial coastline on the Persian Gulf.

Fitzwater's diary entries give a play-by-play of the events from the press briefings to deployment of troops - all interspersed with personal accounts of his interactions with President Bush and world leaders, offering insight to the states of mind of the powerful people responsible for making monumental decisions as well as a snapshot of his own personal experience in the White House.

Fitzwater was a member of the nine person group, including the Vice President and Secretaries of State and Defense, who met with the President almost daily to plan and direct the War.

The book, in fact begins at his family's farm and takes us on Fitzwater's journey to the White House, brilliantly painting a picture of what helped produce his rich powers of observation and storytelling.

Anecdotes connected to other historic events and figures that resonated strongly with the author complement the overall themes and message of the book - and include Barbara Bush, Boris Yeltsin, Margaret Thatcher, the Panama invasion, Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbachev, the hostages in the Middle East, the infa.