After spending a week confined to their house on their expat housing compound, Glenda Lockwood, her sons, and their neighbors check into the International Hotel in Kuwait City. The Iraqi security guards might be keeping danger out, but they're also keeping the expats in. We also hear the story of BA flight 149. 

For Season One: we take a trip back to 1990, to the first Gulf War and Desert Storm. We follow the frightening and unlikely tale of a British family and many others, who were working or vacationing in the middle east at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and how these unlikely westerners became an official part of Saddam Hussein's military strategy. 

Join Host, Producer, and Modern History Enthusiast Robb Coles to revisit and walk through the big news stories that were breaking in the background of millennial childhood.

Sources: 
Diary of a Human Shield by Glenda Lockwood
With It or In It: Desert Shield and Storm from the Loader's Hatch by Bacil Donovan Warren
The Last Flight to Kuwait: BBC 

Interviews: Bacil Donovan Warren, Matthew Gailani