The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk

The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk

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; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.

Robert Fisk, a best-selling author and journalist based in Beirut as The Independent's Middle East Correspondent, has spent nearly three decades in the Middle East and has won more British and international journalistic prizes than any other foreign correspondent. His most recent book, Pity the Country, a history of the Lebanon war, was widely praised.