Drawing upon extensive veteran interviews and previously classified reports, David J. Their only lifeline to the rear is a barely functioning radio. The Marines are trapped and outnumbered, their weapons no match against the Iraqi tanks bearing down on them. Storm on the Horizon drops you in the middle of the most intense battle of the Persian Gulf War. This is the story of the first battle of the smart-bomb age. Storm on the Horizon is the gripping and compelling story of how these elite fighting men escaped the Iraqi onslaught and reversed the assault with an unprecedented combination of high-tech weaponry and American know-how. Caught without warning in the path of this juggernaut were scattered groups of lightly armed U.S. Their mission: to disrupt the massive U.S.-led Coalition preparing to evict them from Kuwait, and to bloody the Americans on CNN. On January 29, 1991, Saddam Hussein launched his three best armored divisions across the Kuwaiti border and into the Islamic Holy Land of Saudi Arabia. Storm on the Horizon is war writing at its finest.

Morris has brilliantly recreated this crucial battle that nearly changed the outcome of the Persian Gulf War.

Combining some of the most powerful writing on war ever with a Marine's eyeview of combat, former Marine officer David J. Storm on the Horizon is the little-known story of the key land battle of Desert Storm: the Battle for Khafji - and how that engagement has become part of military history.

Storm on the Horizon by David J. Morris