
Written by one of Britain's most distinguished journalists, this remarkable book is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for twenty-six years. It is a story of western betrayal and the loss of American power and prestige in the Middle East. This book tells, too, in frightening detail, the story of the Middle East's first suicide bombers and their first devastating strike at Americans. Through a combination of war reporting and political analysis. Robert Fisk describes Lebanon's ferocious civil war and subsequent Israeli invasions, the Lebanese militias whose appalling brutality spared no one; the US Marines who found themselves trapped in the horror of Lebanon where many of them were to meet a terrible fate; and the Israelis, who tried to install their own puppet rulers, and with their 1982 invasion provoked war crimes of their own. Fully updated to include the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon and Ariel Sharon's electoral victory, this American edition has sixty pages of new material and a revised preface.
This work investigates the complex geopolitical collapse of Lebanon during the civil war and the subsequent erosion of Western influence in the Middle East. Robert Fisk, a veteran foreign correspondent, utilizes his extensive on-the-ground experience to document the intersection of local sectarian violence and international intervention. He argues that the failure of Western policy, particularly regarding the United States and Israel, exacerbated the regional instability and contributed to the rise of modern militant tactics.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Experts and historians frequently cite this work as a definitive, albeit harrowing, primary account of the Lebanese conflict. Readers often note the density of the prose and the author's unflinching commitment to documenting the human cost of political failure.
Page Count:
772
Publication Date:
2001-01-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
ISBN-10:
0191631752
ISBN-13:
9780191631757
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