FLIGHT 149: A Hostage Crisis, a Secret Special Forces Unit, and the Origins of the Gulf War.
by Davis, Stephen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in a near fine dust jacket./near fine
- ISBN 10
- 1541700058
- ISBN 13
- 9781541700055
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About This Item
New York:: PublicAffairs,, (2021). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket.. First printing. "On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 400 passengers and crew. Instead, Flight 149 stopped in Kuwait, as Iraqi troops invaded - delivering the passengers and crew into the hands of Saddam Hussein. Why did BA Flight 149 land, even as all other flights were rerouted - . . The answer lies in a secret, unaccountable organization - authorised by Margaret Thatcher - carrying out a 'deniable' intelligence operation. The plane was the 'Trojan Horse', and the plan - as well as the horrific consequences for the civilian passengers - has been lied about, denied and covered up by successive governments ever since. A book written with the full cooperation of the survivors. . a story of scandal, betrayal and misuse of intelligence at the highest levels of UK and US governments - which has had direct impact on terror attacks in the West and the shape of the Middle East today." Map. Sources, index. 275 pp.
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- Title
- FLIGHT 149: A Hostage Crisis, a Secret Special Forces Unit, and the Origins of the Gulf War.
- Author
- Davis, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a near fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1541700058
- ISBN 13
- 9781541700055
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2021)
- Keywords
- iraq war, kuwait, hostages,
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: World;
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