The Lockwood family has just experienced a joyous reunion, when Glenda, Craig and Stuart are reunited with Derek Lockwood after spending 2 stressful weeks apart. But they are quickly moved out of the Mansour Melia Hotel, and taken to a new location for housing that reveals the true reason for their stay in Iraq. We also learn the ultimate plan Iraq has for the Chappell family, after they were taken off British Airways 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 
Saddam’s Shields: 
The United States and Hostage-Taking During the First Gulf War by Matthew Gailani 


Interviews: Bacil Donovan Warren, Matthew Gailani