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The Great War for Civilisation:

The Conquest of the Middle East (Google eBook)
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Random House Digital, Inc., Dec 18, 2007 - Political Science - 1136 pages
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.


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Review: The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

User Review  - Matt - Goodreads

This is an incredibly detailed and compelling history of the Lebanese civil war from 1976 until 1991. It has been updated to cover events in the region (albeit more succinctly) up to the early Aughts ... Read full review

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User Review  - Asad shirazi - Goodreads

Robert Fisk takes the reader to the scalding world of middle east. A part of the planet riddled and haunted by colonial legacy, wars and clash of ideologies. After 9/11, the life of an ordinary person ... Read full review

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Contents

Title Page
CHAPTER ONE One of Our Brothers Had a Dream
CHAPTER TWO They Shoot Russians
CHAPTER THREE The Choirs of Kandahar
CHAPTER FOUR The CarpetWeavers
CHAPTER FIVE The Path to
CHAPTER SIX The Whirlwind War
CHAPTER SEVEN War against War and the Fast Train to Paradise
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Anything to Wipe Out a Devil
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Betrayal
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Land of Graves
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Plague
CHAPTER NINETEEN Now Thrive the Armourers
CHAPTER TWENTY Even to Kings He Comes
CHAPTER TWENTYONE Why?
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO The Die Is Cast

CHAPTER EIGHT Drinking the Poisoned Chalice
CHAPTER NINE Sentenced to Suffer Death
CHAPTER TEN The First Holocaust
CHAPTER ELEVEN Fifty Thousand Miles from Palestine
CHAPTER TWELVE The Last Colonial
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Girl and the Child and Love
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE Atomic Dog Annihilator Arsonist Anthrax
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR Into the Wilderness
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Robert Fisk received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin and was The Times's (London) Belfast correspondent from 1971-1975 and its Middle East correspondent from 1976-1987. Currently based in Beirut as Middle East Correspondent for The Independent, he has lived in the Middle East for almost three decades and holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. His last book, Pity the Nation, a history of the war in Lebanon, was published to great acclaim.


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