Reviews for Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War

The average rating for Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-02-29 00:00:00 Lee Thompson Bought this book after reading the late Michael Kelly's accounts of the war in the newspaper. He was an excellent journalist and this is an outstanding work which brought insight into the continual struggles in the Mideast. I learned more about Iraq from his account than I had from any other source. His death there a few years ago, is so sad.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-19 00:00:00 Andrew Dobos Michael Kelly went to every major country affected by the Gulf War within the span of 4 or 5 months. The product is this very well written and moving account of a region thrown into turmoil. Kelly covers all kinds of fascinating stories: partying in Tel Aviv during the SCUD attacks, traveling with Kurdish peshmerga, visiting hospitals in southern Iraq, hanging with the elite and the impoverished in postwar Baghdad, talking with soldiers and Iraqi prisoners in Kuwait, etc. His account of getting dysentery in Kurdistan is particularly gripping. It also illustrates just how easy it was to die in postwar Iraq when so much of the country's infrastructure was shut down and its people cut off and dislocated. I'd recommend this book for anyone looking for an interesting first hand account of life in the major countries of the Middle East during and after the Gulf War.