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Author Fisk, Robert.

Title The great war for civilisation : the conquest of the Middle East / Robert Fisk.

Imprint New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Eucalyptus  956.04 F543g 2005 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  956.04 F543g 2005    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxii, 1107 pages : map ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 1061-1067) and index.
Contents "One of our brothers had a dream ..." -- "They shoot Russians" -- The choirs of Kandahar -- The carpet-weavers -- The path to war -- "The whirlwind war" -- "War against war" and the fast train to paradise -- Drinking the poisoned chalice -- "Sentenced to suffer death" -- The first Holocaust -- Fifty thousand miles from Palestine -- The last colonial war -- The girl and the child and love -- "Anything to wipe out a devil ..." -- Planet damnation -- Betrayal -- The land of graves -- The plague -- Now thrive the armourers ... -- Even to kings, he comes ... -- Why? -- The die is cast -- Atomic dog, annihilator. arsonist, anthrax, anguish and agamemnon -- Into the wilderness.
Summary A journalist in the Middle East for more than thirty years brings his intimate knowledge of the region to address the recent historical and political events in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Algeria, Israel, and Lebanon.
Subject Middle East -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Middle East -- History, Military -- 21st century.
War and society -- Middle East.
Middle East -- Colonization.
United States -- Relations -- Middle East.
Middle East -- Relations -- United States.
Middle East -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Middle East -- History, Military -- 21st century.
Middle East -- Colonization.
Middle East -- Relations -- United States.
United States -- Relations -- Middle East.
Colonization. (OCoLC)fst00868483
International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053
War and society. (OCoLC)fst01170447
Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
ISBN 1400041511 (alk. paper)
9781400041510 (alk. paper)
Standard No. 9781400041510

 
    
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