
The Great War for Civilisation The Conquest of the Middle East
Fisk, Robert Publisher: HarperCollins Year Published: 2005 Pages: 1107pp ISBN: 1400075173 Resource Type: Book
Fisk explores a number of key themes in the history of the modern Middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003 Iraq War as well as other regional conflicts such as the Armenian Genocide and the Algerian Civil War.
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Acknowledgments List of Maps Preface 1. 'One of our Brothers had a Dream…' 2. 'They Shoot Russians' 3. The Choirs of Kandahar 4. The Carpet-Weavers 5. The Path to War 6. 'The Whirlwind War' 7. 'War Against War' and the Fast Train to Paradise 8. Drinking the Poisoned Chalice 9. 'Sentenced to Suffer Death' 10. The First Holocaust 11. Fifty Thousand Miles from Palestine 12. The Last Colonial War 13. The Girl and the Child and Love 14. 'Anything to Wipe out a Devil…' 15. Planet Damnation 16. Betrayal 17. The Land of Graves 18. The Plague 19. Now Thrive the Armourers… 20. Even to the Kings, He Comes… 21. Why? 22. The Die is Cast 23. Atomic Dog, Annihilator, Arsonist, Anthrax and Agamemnon 24. Into the Wilderness
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