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This is an astonishing and timely account of 50 years of bloodshed
and tragedy in the Middle East from one of our finest and most
revered journalists. The Great War for Civilisation is written with
passion and anger, a reporter's eyewitness account of the Middle
East's history. All the most dangerous men of the past quarter
century in the region - from Osama bin Laden to Ayatollah Khomeini,
from Saddam to Ariel Sharon - come alive in these pages. Fisk has
met most of them, and even spent the night out at a guerrilla camp
with Bin Laden himself. In a narrative of blood and mass killing,
Fisk tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions
of Muslims, the West's cynical support for the Middle East's most
ruthless dictators and America's ever more powerful military
presence in the world's most dangerous lands as well as its
uncritical, unconditional support for Israel's occupation of
Palestinian land.
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 and internationally recognized
orange peacekeeper jacket, he was severely wounded 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 shooing. 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 sixth anniversary of the fateful
day, and with the recent Channel 4 film-documentary 'The Shooting
of Thomas Hurndall'.
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 thirty 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.
Robert Fisk has reported from the Middle East for thirty-two years
and covered eleven major wars. Britain's most celebrated foreign
correspondent, he is allowed unique freedom to speak out against
what he sees as "the fraud and injustices of a world in which
consent has become automatic." In a journalistic age in which even
the mildest criticism of authority is considered subversive, Fisk's
reporting is more vital than ever.
In "The Age of the Warrior," Fisk's eloquent and far-ranging
articles on international politics have been brought together in a
single volume for the first time. He takes us from the London
bombings to the streets of Lebanon, from war-torn Iraq to the
squalor of Gaza, offering courageous eyewitness accounts of our
bloodstained past and present.
A collection of remarkable breadth and power from one of the
most popular, provocative, and indefatigable journalists, "The Age
of the Warrior" is indispensable reading for our complex,
battle-scarred world.
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Beirut (Paperback)
Samir Kassir; Translated by M.B. DeBevoise; Foreword by Robert Fisk
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R920
R809
Discovery Miles 8 090
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Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the
story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean
civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work
completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, "Beirut"
is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the
modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid,
Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly
describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the
Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near
destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990.
Generously illustrated and eloquently written, "Beirut" illuminates
contemporary issues of modernity and democracy while at the same
time memorably recreating the atmosphere of one of the world's most
picturesque, dynamic, and resilient cities.
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Speak Truth to Power (Paperback)
Ken Coates, Gabriel Kolko, Tony Bunyan, Robert Fisk; Edited by Ken Coates; …
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R197
Discovery Miles 1 970
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Genocide Old and New (Paperback)
Robert Fisk, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hans Blix; Volume editing by Ken Coates, Raphael Lemkin
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R199
Discovery Miles 1 990
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Surging for Oil (Paperback)
Ken Coates, Robert Fisk, John Ainslie; Volume editing by Paul Rogers, Alexis Lykiard, …
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R199
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ContentsWho will control Iraq's Oil? Ken Coates - EditorialAntonia
Juhasz - Oil and the Bush Agenda Alexis Lykiard - Defining Terms
Paul Rogers - Tony Blair's Long War Mairead Corrigan Maguire -
Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Mikhail Gorbachev - We Still Need
Disarmament Robert Fisk - Armenia: The First Holocaust
With the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where
is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading?
Robert Fisk's explosive Pity the Nation recounts Sharon and
Arafat's first deadly encounter in Lebanon in the early 1980s and
explains why the Israel--Palestine relationship seems so
intractable. A remarkable combination of war reporting and analysis
by an author who has witnessed the carnage of Beirut for
twenty-five years, Fisk, the first journalist to whom bin Laden
announced his jihad against the U.S., is one of the world's most
fearless and honored foreign correspondents. He spares no one in
this saga of the civil war and subsequent Israeli invasion: the
PLO, whose thuggish behavior alienated most Lebanese; the various
Lebanese factions, whose appalling brutality spared no one; the
Syrians, who supported first the Christians and then the Muslims in
their attempt to control Lebanon; and the Israelis, who tried to
install their own puppets and, with their 1982 invasion, committed
massive war crimes of their own. It includes a moving finale that
recounts the travails of Fisk's friend Terry Anderson who was
kidnapped by Hezbollah and spent 2,454 days in captivity. Fully
updated to include the Israeli withdrawl from south Lebanon and
Ariel Sharon's electoral victory over Ehud Barak, this edition has
sixty pages of new material and a new preface. "Robert Fisk's
enormous book about Lebanon's desperate travails is one of the most
distinguished in recent times."--Edward Said
When the Union Jack was hauled down over the Atlantic naval
ports of Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swilly in 1939, the Irish were
jubilant. But in London, Churchhill brooded on the
'incomprehensible' act of surrendering three of the Royal Navy's
finest ports when Europe was about to go to war.
Eighteen months later, Churchill was talking of military action
against Ireland. He demanded the return of the ports and the Irish
made ready to defend their country against British as well as
German invasion.
In Northern Ireland, a Unionist Government vainly tried to
introduce conscription. Along the west coast British submarines
prowled the seas searching for German U-boats sheltering in the
bays; British agents toured the villages of Donegal in search of
fifth columnists while their German counterparts tried to make
contact with the IRA.
This is a fasinating study of Ireland during the Second World
War.
"Anybody interested in Irish affairs will have to get Fisk's
book." Literary Review
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISK Seven Pillars of Wisdom is
an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab
Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside
general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure
and drama. It is also a memoir of the soldier known as 'Lawrence of
Arabia'.Lawrence is a fascinating and controversial figure and his
talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every
page of this, his masterpiece. Seven Pillars of Wisdom provides a
unique portrait of this extraordinary man and an insight into the
birth of the Arab nation
Pity the Nation ranks among the classic accounts of war in our
time, both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to
human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists,
this remarkable book combines political analysis and war reporting
in an unprecedented way: it is an epic account of the Lebanon
conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of
Beirut for over a decade. Fisk's book recounts the details of a
terrible war but it also tells a story of betrayal and illusion, of
Western blindness that had led inevitably to political and military
catastrophe. Updated and revised, Fisk's book gives us a further
insight into this troubled part of the world. 'Robert Fisk is one
of the outstanding reporters of this generation. As a war
correpondent he is unrivalled.' Edward Mortimer, Financial Times
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Beirut (Hardcover)
Samir Kassir; Translated by M.B. DeBevoise; Foreword by Robert Fisk
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R1,608
R1,343
Discovery Miles 13 430
Save R265 (16%)
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Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the
story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean
civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work
completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, "Beirut"
is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the
modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid,
Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Kassir vividly
describes Beirut's spectacular growth in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, concentrating on its emergence after the
Second World War as a cosmopolitan capital until its near
destruction during the devastating Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990.
Generously illustrated and eloquently written, "Beirut" illuminates
contemporary issues of modernity and democracy while at the same
time memorably recreating the atmosphere of one of the world's most
picturesque, dynamic, and resilient cities.
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