The Great War For Civilisation. The Conquest Of The Middle East

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 1366 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few ink marks on the page edges.

Publishers Description: Decorated British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has been based in the Middle East for the last twenty-five years, reporting from the worlds worst trouble-spots. This is his first-person account of fifty years of bloodshed and tragedy in the area, from the Palestinian-Israeli bloodbath to the shock and awe of the recent war against Iraq. The Great War for Civilisation is written with passion and anger, a reporters eyewitness account of the Middle Easts history. All the most dangerous men of the past quarter century in the region -- from Osama bin Laden to Ayatollah Khomeini, from Saddam to Ariel Sharon -- come alive in these pages. Fisk has met most of them, and even spent the night out at a guerrilla camp with bin Laden himself. In a narrative of blood and mass killing, Fisk tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the Wests cynical support for the Middle Easts most ruthless dictators and Americas ever more powerful military presence in the worlds most dangerous lands as well as its uncritical, unconditional support for Israels occupation of Palestinian land. It is also a story of journalists at war, of the rage, humour and frustration of the correspondents who spend their lives reporting the first draft of history, their weaknesses and cowardice, their courage and truth-telling. After reading The Great War for Civilisation the reader grasps just why those 19 suicide pilots changed the world on September 11th. Brought right up to the current day and reporting from the heart of a bombed-out Baghdad, Fisk examines the factors leading up to the coalition forces entering Iraq, and discusses possible outcomes of long-term involvement there.

ISBN: 9781841150079