TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salgado,Sebastião
AU  - Salgado,Lélia Wanick
TI  - Kuwait: a desert on fire = eine wuste in flammen = un derert en feu 
SN  - 9783836561259
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cologne, Germany
PB  - Taschen
KW  - Salgado, Sebastião,
KW  - War photography
KW  - Kuwait
KW  - Oil wells
KW  - Fires and fire prevention
KW  - Pictorial works
N2  - Sebastião Salgado documents the torched Kuwaiti oil wells. In January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein's troops retaliated with an inferno. At some 700 oil wells and an unspecified number of oil-filled low-lying areas they ignited vast, raging fires , sending billowing black clouds over the region and thousands of tons of nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
ER  -