War in a Time of Peace (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Halberstam
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1991-2000
- Setting: Washington, D.C.; Dayton, Ohio; Vietnam; Somalia; the Persian Gulf; Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia, including key cities Sarajevo, Kosovo, and others); Rwanda; and Haiti
- Principal Characters: Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright, Anthony Lake, Richard C. Holbrooke, Vernon Jordan, General Colin Powell, General Wesley K. Clark, General John Shalikashvili, Roy Gutman
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Twentieth century, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Politicians, 1990’s, Presidents, Haiti or Haitians, Vietnam or Vietnamese people, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians, Persian Gulf War, Heads of state, Generals, 2000’s, Balkans
- Locales: Haiti, Washington, D.C., Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Dayton, OH, Somalia
Writing about John “Shali” Shalikashvili, who succeeded Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the fall of 1993 when U.S. involvement in Bosnia was fast becoming unmanageable, David Halberstam devotes a full chapter to the unlikely story of the four-star general who arrived in the United States from Warsaw in 1952, at the age of sixteen, and rose in the military to the point where, after the Gulf War, he was assigned the tough job of heading up Provide Comfort, a Kurdish rescue operation that may have saved as many as 600,000 lives. Halberstam’s unqualified...
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