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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

Desert Storm/Persian Gulf War

Library Resources

Searching Wallace Library's Einstein Catalog provides information relating to Desert Storm/Persian Gulf War. Remember, you can do a keyword search or a subject search to locate information on a topic. When doing a keyword search, you can make use of Boolean searching by combining your search words with the words and, or, not. Advanced searching will allow you to set some limitations to your search results. Below is a sampling of titles along with their call numbers and the floor location.

After the Storm: Lessons From the Gulf War. DS79.72 .A351992, 4th floor.
Against the Fires of Hell: the Environmental Disaster of the Gulf War. DS79.744 .E58 H38 1992, 4th floor.
Chemical Biological Defense: U.S. Military Policies and Decisions in the Gulf War. UA23 .M323 1998, 3rd floor.
Crisis in the Arabian Gulf: An Independent Iraqi View. DS79.72 .A44 1993, 4th floor.
Desert Storm and the Mass Media. DS79.739 .D47 1993, 4th floor.
Desert Victory: the War for Kuwait. DS79.72 .F75 1991, 4th floor.
Encylopedia of the Persian Gulf War. UF500 .G8 1995, Reference Area, 1st floor.
Engulfed in War: Just War and the Persian Gulf. DS79.72 .E54 1991, 4th floor.
The Fire This Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf. DS79.736 .C54 1992, 4th floor.
The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf. DS79.72 .G67 1995b, 4th floor.
The Gulf Conflict, 1990-91: A Diplomacy and War in the New World Order. DS79.72 .F74 1993, 4th floor.
The Gulf War. DS79.72 .K56 1991, 4th floor.
The Gulf War Aftermath: An Environmental Tragedy. TD196.P4 S24 1993, 3rd floor.
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. DS79.72 .B3813 1995, 4th floor.
The Gulf War Reader. DS79.72 .G85 1991, 4th floor.Iraq. DS79.72 .I73 1991, 4th floor.
The Origins of the Gulf Wars. DS318.85 .M68 2001, 4th floor.
Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Chronology and Fact Book. DS79.72 .H88 1995, 4th floor.
The Persian Gulf Crisis. DS79.72 .Y48 1997, 4th floor.
The Persian Gulf TV War. PN4888.T4 K45 1992, 3rd floor.
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf War. DS79.724.S33 R37 1992, 4th floor.
Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. DS79.739 .M33 1992, 4th floor.
Storm Over Iraq: Air Power and the Gulf War. UG633 .H35 1992, 3rd floor.
War in the Persian Gulf. DS79.72 .B73 1991, 4th floor.

Research Databases:

Click on the above link for the complete list of the RIT Library's Online Databases. Suggested databases are listed below.

Military and Government Collection: Formerly Military Library. Collection includes military and government related titles, trade publications and newsweeklies. Designed to bring current news this database contains: searchable full text for nearly 270 periodicals including Army Times, Navy Times, Naval Institute Proceedings and Joint Forces Quarterly abstracts and indexing for over 430 periodicals and 240 pamphlets.

JSTOR: The journals listed below are available in full-text through the JStor database.
Journal of Military History 1989-1999
Military Affairs 1941-1988
Journal of the American Military Institute 1939-1940
Journal of the American Military History Foundation 1937-1938

Academic Search Elite: Provides information on a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics. It features full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.

America: History and Life: Covers United States and Canadian history from pre-history to present.

ArticleFirst: Describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately 12,600 journals in science, technology, social science, business, the humanities, etc.

Congressional Quarterly Researcher: The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environmnet, health, education and science and technology.

Contemporary Women's Issues: Focuses on timely and relevant topics and meaningful issues for women, including health, human rights, the work place, legal status, and more.

Country Watch: Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world: political, economic, and business information.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: Complete 32 volume Encyclopaedia Britannica containing more than 215,000 entries.

Ethnic News Watch: Full-text collection of news, culture and history from ethnic, minority and native press searchable in both English and Spanish.

FirstGov: A centralized place to find information from 20,000+ local, state, and U.S. Government Agency websites.

Historical Abstracts: Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Excludes North America.

Lexis-Nexis Academic: Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources.

Philosopher's Index: Covers philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology and as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

SIRS Government Reporter: The ideal resource to locate information issued by the U.S. government on domestic and international affairs, scientific research, business developments, government procedures and military issues.

Wilson Social Sciences Full Text (part of OmniFile): Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, etc.

World News: African and Middle Eastern news, Asian, Pacific Rim and Australian news, Canadian news, European news, Mexican, Central American and South American news, United States news.

Internet Resources Relating to Operation Desert Storm/Persian Gulf War:

Frontline: The Gulf War. An indepth examination of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis.

The History Guy: The Persian Gulf War (1990-91): Site initially developed by history teacher and enthusiast, Roger Lee, to assist his students in research. Site has expanded to include many facets of history, particularly military.

Military Analysis Network: Operation Desert Storm. Site by Federation of American Scientists.

The Gulf War from Gulf War History Resources. A bibliography of websites broken into several different categories.

Persian Gulf War, 1990-91: Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Bibliography compiled by Sue Goodman, Bibliographer, Air University Library at Maxwell Air Force Base, AL.