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Robert Fisk

    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.

    What Work Is
    Night of Power
    The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
    The great war for civilisation.The conquest of the Middle East
    Pity the Nation
    Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
    • 'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY The final work from award-winning journalist and commentator Robert Fisk, following on from the highly acclaimed The Great War for Civilisation. An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting. Fully immersed in the Middle East and critical of the West's ongoing interference, Fisk was committed to uncovering complex and uncomfortable truths that rarely featured on the traditional news agenda. With a foreword from fellow Middle East correspondent and former colleague Patrick Cockburn, Night of Power delivers an essential and final account from one of the world's finest journalists, and proves itself timely as ever. 'Every sentence of Robert Fisk radiates his loathe of wars and the inevitable dehumanization they produce, which makes his (sadly) last book an everlasting warning, beyond its value as a meticulous historical recount and analysis of today's events' Amira Hass, journalist, Haaretz 'Fisk's reporting is clear- eyed and unflinching, a model for what journalists should aspire to practice in their ever more important and widely threatened craft' Anthony Arnove, editor, Iraq Under Siege and author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal

      Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
      4,7
    • Pity the Nation

      The Abduction of Lebanon

      • 752 Seiten
      • 27 Lesestunden

      "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.

      Pity the Nation
      4,5
    • 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.

      The great war for civilisation.The conquest of the Middle East
      4,5
    • 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.

      The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
      4,4
    • Night of Power

      • 672 Seiten
      • 24 Lesestunden

      '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.

      Night of Power
      4,3
    • What Work Is

      • 232 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      A distinctive exploration of how workers see work For more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union members from a wide range of occupations and demographic groups. In the class, he asked his students to finish the question "Work is--?" in six words or less. The thousands of responses he collected provide some of the rich source material behind What Work Is. Bruno draws on the thoughts and feelings experienced by workers in the present day to analyze how we might design a future of work. He breaks down perceptions of work into five categories: work and time; the space workers occupy; the impact of work on our lives; the sense of purpose that motivates workers; and the people we work for, in all senses of the term. Far-seeing and sympathetic, What Work Is merges personal experiences with research, poetry, and other diverse sources to illuminate workers' lives in the present and envision what work could be in the future.

      What Work Is
      4,0
    • Syria

      Descent into the Abyss

      • 261 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden

      This remarkable anthology chronicles more than three years of spiralling violence and despair in Syria: atrocity heaped upon atrocity, misery upon misery, and all - so far - to no avail. No faction is without blood on its hands; no crime, from torture to poison gas, has been deemed taboo. The dead are too numerous to count. As for the living, close to 3 million refugees have fled Syria, with millions more internally displaced. How did we come to this? There is no better way to answer this question than to revisit The Independent's published accounts of the unfolding tragedy. Spearheaded by peerless and profoundly experienced correspondents such as Patrick Cockburn, Robert Fisk, Kim Sengupta, our coverage has led the world in its fearlessness and insight. Syria's tragedy is not yet over.

      Syria
      3,8
    • In Time of War

      Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-45

      • 672 Seiten
      • 24 Lesestunden

      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 fascinating study of Ireland during the Second World War. "Anybody interested in Irish affairs will have to get Fisk's book." - "Literary Review".

      In Time of War
      3,9
    • The Age of the Warrior

      Selected Writings

      • 522 Seiten
      • 19 Lesestunden

      A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's war-torn recent history. He is best known for his writing about the Middle East, its wars, dictators and international relations, but these 'Comment' articles cover an array of topics, from his soldier grandfather to handwriting to the titanic - and of course President Bush, terrorism and Iraq.

      The Age of the Warrior
      4,0
    • Schuld am Unglück ist die Austreibung der Moderne. Die Schwächung durch das arabische Unlück hat einen Punkt erreicht, an dem sie die Geschichte verdrängt, um eine fortwährende Ohnmacht zu etablieren und die Möglichkeit eines neuen Aufstiegs auszuschließen.

      Das arabische Unglück
      3,8