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

By Robert Fisk

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75.2 hours

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699,776

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English

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US, Open Market

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Rarely have first-hand reporting and history been so powerfully combined than in Robert Fisk's epic story of politics and betrayal in the Middle East. As his narrative of bloodshed and conflict unfolds in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Algeria, Israel, Palestine, and other battlefields, the carnage of September 11th, 2001, and the increasingly difficult war in Iraq take on a new and deeper...

Rarely have first-hand reporting and history been so powerfully combined than in Robert Fisk's epic story of politics and betrayal in the Middle East. As his narrative of bloodshed and conflict unfolds in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Algeria, Israel, Palestine, and other battlefields, the carnage of September 11th, 2001, and the increasingly difficult war in Iraq take on a new and deeper significance. Fisk has been on the battlefront of the Middle East's conflicts for 30 years and his devastating accounts are now read all over the world. His eyewitness testimony of the horrors of modern warfare--in the tradition of the great reporters of the Second World War--is filled not only with pity and anger but also with lucid, intelligent, and incisive analysis and explanation. Fisk has met many of the most dangerous men of the past quarter century in the Middle East--men such as Osama bin Laden, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Hafiz Assad--and his portraits make them come alive in these pages. This book is a passionate outcry against the lies and deceit that have sent soldiers to their deaths and killed tens of thousands of men and women--Arab, Christian, and Jew--over the past century. Fisk tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West's cynical support for the Middle East's most ruthless dictators, and America's ever more powerful military presence in the world's most dangerous lands. This is also a chronicle of journalists at war, of the rage, hope and frustration of the correspondents who spend their lives reporting the first draft of history, of their weakness and courage--sometimes of their deaths--and about their desperate efforts to tell the truth about the Middle East against the pressure of increasingly centralized and partisan media companies. The Great War for Civilisation is a masterpiece of adventure and tragedy, softened with both humor and compassion. It is the story of the violent world that has shaped our lives--and is shaping our future.

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History

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Nonfiction

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English

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Male

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Adult

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American-General American

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Straightforward

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Date posted to ACX:

May 02 2011

Original publication date:

2005-11-08

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476352

Amazon rating:

4.5 out of 5 stars (167 ratings)

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Narration includes Middle Eastern names and place names.
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.

Robert Fisk is one of the most highly decorated foreign correspondents in the world. His citations include: the United Nations Press Award in 1986; the British International Journalist of the Year award seven times, most recently in 1996; the John Hopkins SIAS-CIBA prize for international journalism in 1996; the Amnesty International UK Press Awards in 1998 for his reports from Algeria and in 2000 for his articles on Yugoslavia; and the Martha Gellhorn and European International Journalist of the Year awards in 2003 for his coverage of Iraq.

Fisk is the Middle East correspondent for The Independent and his articles run in numerous print and on-line publications all over the globe. He has written for The Nation and The New York Review of Books and was Belfast correspondent (1971-1975) and Middle East correspondent (1976-1987) for The Times (London).

Fisk has been covering the Middle East for the last thirty years and is one of the most experienced and respected journalists in his field. He has reported on everything from the Iranian revolution to the Iran-Iraq War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Beirut hostage crisis (as one of the only two Western journalists there), the Algerian civil war to the Persian Gulf War, and the conflicts in Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. He is currently reporting on the war in Iraq, frequently from Baghdad.

The time is ripe for a book that addresses, accurately and without bias, the full complexity of recent political history in the Middle East. There's a significant audience out there that wants to know how and why events have developed the way they have. Few people in the world are as qualified as Fisk to write such a book.

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

By Robert Fisk