The Great War for Civilisation
Book description
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 forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution;…
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Robert Fisk was a war correspondent for the London Times all over the Middle East in the 80, 90s and 2000s. His stories about war, his empathy, his deep connection to his father and grandfather's memories as soldiers are peronal and often with exquisite bits of writing. It's a huge book, and one gets the impression her wrote it because otherwise he might not have been able to believe all the places he was, the danger, the crosslegged chats over the years with Osama Bin Laden. It is not easy or quick to absorb the volume of hit after hit…