Great War for Civilisation The Conquest of the Middle East

Name: Great War for Civilisation The Conquest of the Middle East
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ISBN: 9781400075171

ISBN-10: 1400075173

ISBN-13: 9781400075171

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Fisk

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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 Civilisationunflinchingly 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 Civilisationis a work of major importance for today's world.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1136
Size: 6.08" wide x 9.20" long x 1.88" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of Maps


Preface


"One of Our Brothers Had a Dream . . ."


"They Shoot Russians"


The Choirs of Kandahar


The Carpet-Weavers


The Path to War


"The Whirlwind War"


"War against War" and the Fast Train to Paradise


Drinking the Poisoned Chalice


"Sentenced to Suffer Death"


The First Holocaust


Fifty Thousand Miles from Palestine


The Last Colonial War


The Girl and the Child and Love


"Anything to Wipe Out a Devil . . ."


Planet Damnation


Betrayal


The Land of Graves


The Plague


Now Thrive the Armourers. . .


Even to Kings, He Comes. . .


Why?


The Die Is Cast


Atomic Dog, Annihilator, Arsonist, Anthrax, Anguish and Agamemnon


Into the Wilderness


Notes


Select Bibliography


Chronology


Index