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Night Of Power - The Betrayal Of The Middle East (Paperback): Robert Fisk Night Of Power - The Betrayal Of The Middle East (Paperback)
Robert Fisk
R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The final work from foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, picking up the story in the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of Civilisation left off, starting with the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in 2005.

From the Arab uprisings and the Syrian civil war to Israel’s conflicts with Palestine and Lebanon, Fisk condemns the West’s ongoing hypocrisy and interference while revealing the horrific truth of life on the ground. Unafraid to criticise authority and unpick complex truths, hecreates a compelling narrative of passionate and engaging journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting.

Night of Power delivers an essential and prophetic account of the last twenty years, which exposes the inescapable consequences of colonial oppression and violence in the Middle East.

Scientific Results Of The Katmai Expeditions Of The National Geographic Society. I-x (Hardcover): National Geographic Society,... Scientific Results Of The Katmai Expeditions Of The National Geographic Society. I-x (Hardcover)
National Geographic Society, Robert Fiske Griggs, John Wesley Shipley
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Only House Left Standing - The Journals of Tom Hurndall (Hardcover): Tom Hurndall, Robert Fisk The Only House Left Standing - The Journals of Tom Hurndall (Hardcover)
Tom Hurndall, Robert Fisk
R821 R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Save R129 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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'.

Night of Power - Calamity in the Middle East (Hardcover): Robert Fisk Night of Power - Calamity in the Middle East (Hardcover)
Robert Fisk
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The follow-up to Fisk's authoritative and highly acclaimed 'The Great War for Civilisation', which charted his 30-year career as a reporter in the war zones of the Middle East. .

Beirut (Paperback): Samir Kassir Beirut (Paperback)
Samir Kassir; Translated by M.B. DeBevoise; Foreword by Robert Fisk
R902 R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Save R71 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Great War for Civilisation - The Conquest of the Middle East (Paperback): Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilisation - The Conquest of the Middle East (Paperback)
Robert Fisk
R834 R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Save R109 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Pity the Nation - Lebanon at War (Paperback, Updated Edition): Robert Fisk Pity the Nation - Lebanon at War (Paperback, Updated Edition)
Robert Fisk
R642 R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Save R76 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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

The Age of the Warrior - Selected Writings (Paperback): Robert Fisk The Age of the Warrior - Selected Writings (Paperback)
Robert Fisk 1
R516 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R48 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

In Time of War - Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-1945 (Paperback, New Ed): Robert Fisk In Time of War - Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-1945 (Paperback, New Ed)
Robert Fisk
R688 R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Save R83 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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

Beirut (Hardcover): Samir Kassir Beirut (Hardcover)
Samir Kassir; Translated by M.B. DeBevoise; Foreword by Robert Fisk
R1,576 R1,366 Discovery Miles 13 660 Save R210 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Paperback): T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Paperback)
T.E. Lawrence; Introduction by Robert Fisk
R411 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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

Scientific Results Of The Katmai Expeditions Of The National Geographic Society. I-x (Paperback): National Geographic Society,... Scientific Results Of The Katmai Expeditions Of The National Geographic Society. I-x (Paperback)
National Geographic Society, Robert Fiske Griggs, John Wesley Shipley
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Observations On the Geographical Composition of the Sugar Grove Flora (Hardcover): Robert Fiske Griggs Observations On the Geographical Composition of the Sugar Grove Flora (Hardcover)
Robert Fiske Griggs
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Botanical Survey of the Sugar Grove Region, Volume 1 (Paperback): Robert Fiske Griggs A Botanical Survey of the Sugar Grove Region, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Robert Fiske Griggs
R473 R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pity the Nation (Paperback, 4th, new American ed): Robert Fisk Pity the Nation (Paperback, 4th, new American ed)
Robert Fisk
R864 R805 Discovery Miles 8 050 Save R59 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

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