The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle EastKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 18 Ara 2007 - 1136 sayfa 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. |
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CHAPTER THREE The Choirs of Kandahar | |
CHAPTER FOUR The CarpetWeavers | |
CHAPTER FIVE The Path to | |
CHAPTER SIX The Whirlwind War | |
CHAPTER SEVEN War against War and the Fast Train to Paradise | |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Anything to Wipe Out a Devil | |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Planet Damnation | |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Betrayal | |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Land of Graves | |
CHAPTEREIGHTEEN The Plague | |
CHAPTER NINETEEN Now Thrive the Armourers | |
CHAPTER TWENTY Even to Kings He Comes | |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE Why? | |
CHAPTEREIGHT Drinking the Poisoned Chalice | |
CHAPTER NINE Sentenced to Suffer Death | |
CHAPTER TEN The First Holocaust | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN Fifty Thousand Miles from Palestine | |
CHAPTER TWELVE The Last Colonial | |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Girl and the Child and Love | |
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO The Die Is Cast | |
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE Atomic Dog Annihilator Arsonist Anthrax Anguish | |
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR Into the Wilderness | |
Notes | |
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |
Diğer baskılar - Tümünü görüntüle
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk Metin Parçacığı görünümü - 2005 |
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk Metin Parçacığı görünümü - 2005 |
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk Metin Parçacığı görünümü - 2005 |
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