Bibliograph

The great war for civilisation, the conquest of the Middle East, Robert Fisk

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The great war for civilisation, the conquest of the Middle East, Robert Fisk

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1061-1067) and index

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great war for civilisation

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

standards specificationsbibliography

Responsibility statement

Robert Fisk

Sub title

the conquest of the Middle East

Summary

A journalist in the Middle East for more than thirty years brings his intimate knowledge of the region to address the recent historical and political events in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Algeria, Israel, and Lebanon

Table Of Contents

"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

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