On One of the Great Unsung War Novels of the Last 30 Years
Daniel Elkind Rereads James Chapman’s TV-War Novel GLASS (pray the electrons back to sand) February 18, 2021 Thirty years ago, as “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” by C+C Music Factory topped the American charts and Silence of the Lambs took Home Alone’s spot at the top of the box office, a U.S.-led coalition of 35 nations launched its defense of Kuwait—an operation codenamed Desert Shield to hammer home the message. This act of liberation, and the campaign known as Desert Storm that followed, would ultimately lead to the deaths of more than 100,000 people, most of the...
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