The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

History

Robert Fisk

Asia

Fourth Estate/HarperCollins Canada Ltd.

An account of war in our time, both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. This book combines political analysis and war reporting: it is an account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade.

Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War

Middle East

Oxford

An account of war in our time, both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. This book combines political analysis and war reporting: it is an account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade.

Pity the Nation : Lebanon at War

Oxford University Press

In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-45

Europe

Andre Deutsch

Pity the nation: Lebanon at war

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

More than any other nation, Egypt epitomises the cruel disappointments of the Arab Spring. In less than four years, its people have come full circle. A sclerotic, cynical, seemingly immovable military regime, disguised by a fig-leaf of ostensible representation, was swept away on a joyous tsunami of popular idealism; a corrupt dictator was ousted, tried and jailed; free elections were held, a new president peacefully installed, and a new age of freedom and democracy seemed genuinely possible.Then, with tragic predictability, the new regime degenerated. Corruption, incompetence and repression provoked a counter-revolution; the elected president was ousted and jailed, his supporters massacred or rounded up. The old dictator was freed (for a while), the opposition was outlawed, the faceless men of the military resumed and tightened their grip on the reins of power - and thousands of ordinary Egyptians were left wondering what all their suffering and sacrifice had been for.No commentator is better qualified to tell this tragic tale than Robert Fisk, unflinching critic of the Mubarak regime and acclaimed chronicler of Middle-Eastern affairs for The Independent for 25 years. This powerful anthology of his journalism describes the full cycle of Egypt's awakening and relapse, episode by episode, as it happened - from the first stirrings of unrest to the glorious dawn of Tahrir Square, and the days of shame and atrocity that followed.Told with rare insight into both Egyptian culture and the hypocrisy of the West, this is history at its most compelling, written by one of the very greatest commentators on the Arab world.

Robert Fisk on Egypt: A Revolution Betrayed: A powerful collection of reportage on Egypt?s cycle of awakening and relapse

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The unfolding events in the run up to the Iraq war had given Tom Hurndall, a 21-year-old British photojournalist, an increased curiosity and desire to journey to the Middle East. In February 2003, initially as an observer alongside the Human Shields, he left with a passion to make a difference, to record and photograph the truth for himself. We follow his journey first from Baghdad, then to Amman and the Al-Rweished refugee camp in Jordan, and finally on to the town of Rafah in Gaza close to the Egyptian border, where US peaceworker Rachel Corrie had been killed just weeks previously. On April 11th, unarmed and wearing an internationally recognizable orange peacekeeper jacket, he was shot in the head by an IDF sniper while carrying Palestinian children to safety. He died nine months later in a London hospital. The book follows Tom's life and thoughts in the final weeks leading up to the shooting. Motivated by a sense of injustice and striving to remain objective we are drawn into his increasingly serious photographs and words, through extracts from his diary, emails and poems. It is realised through collaboration with the Hurndall family on the eighth anniversary of that fateful day, and follows the 2008 BAFTA nominated Channel 4 film 'The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall'."

The Only House Left Standing: The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall

Arts & Photography

Tom Hurndall

Photography & Video

Trolley Books

A Grande Guerra Pela Civilização. A Conquista do Médio Oriente

Edições 70

A Grande Guerra pela Civilização

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