Robert Fisk war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, der über 30 Jahre als Korrespondent für The Independent vom Nahen Osten berichtete, wobei Beirut sein Hauptstützpunkt war. Seine Arbeit zeichnete sich durch eine unerschütterliche Haltung aus, Autoritäten herauszufordern, da er glaubte, dass der Journalismus „Autorität, jegliche Autorität, herausfordern muss, insbesondere wenn Regierungen und Politiker uns in den Krieg führen“. Fisk, ein Pazifist, der nie wählte, wurde für seine aufschlussreiche und mutige Berichterstattung aus Konflikten in Afghanistan und im Irak berühmt. Seine journalistische Exzellenz wurde mit zahlreichen britischen und internationalen Auszeichnungen gewürdigt und machte ihn zu einer angesehenen Stimme in der Auslandsberichterstattung.
Fisks Bericht ist ein dramatisches, bedrückendes, aber zugleich auch zutiefst politisierendes Beispiel für engagierten Journalismus. Seine persönliche Haltung und seine Betroffenheit sind in jedem Satz spürbar. Zugleich will er die Schuldigen namhaft machen und so der Weltöffentlichkeit die Hintergründe von Krieg und Gewalt im Libanon erklären. Erstmals erscheint nun Fisks Reportage über eines der grässlichsten Verbrechen der vergangenen Jahrzehnte in deutscher Übersetzung.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Presents an account of 50 years of bloodshed and tragedy in the Middle East. This book tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West's cynical support for the Middle East's ruthless dictators, and America's powerful military presence in the world's most dangerous lands.
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.
Award-winning journalist Robert Fisk's definite study of Ireland during the
Second World War details factors from German U-boats to conscription attempts
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'INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY
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.
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. It 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.
Robert Fisk has amassed a massive and devoted global readership with his eloquent and far-ranging articles on international politics. Now, for the first time, his brave and incisive essays have been collected in a single volume that ranges in scope from the recent war in Lebanon to the rise of Hamas; from the invasion of Kuwait to the looting of Baghdad; from America’s imperial ambitions to the inescapable influence of the Treaty of Versailles. Taken together, these articles form an unparalleled account of our war-torn recent history.
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