The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Robert Fisk
#2485 of 3,809 books · #823 in History
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2005).
Decorated British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk has been based in the Middle East for the last twenty-five years, reporting from the world's 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 current war against Iraq.
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- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2005)
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