The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

图书标准信息

• 作者 Robert Fisk 著
• 出版社 Penguin
• 出版时间 2006-12
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9781841150086
• 定价 153.90元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 1392页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

RobertFisk’sbestsellingeyewitnessaccountoftheeventsthathaveshapedtheMiddleEastisalivewithvividreportingandincisivehistoricalanalysis.ThehistoryoftheMiddleEastisanepicstoryoftragedy,betrayalandworld-shakingevents.ItisastorythatRobertFiskhasbeenreportingforoverthirtyyears.HismasterfulnarrativespansthemostvolatileregionsoftheMiddleEast,chroniclingwithbothrageandcompassionthedeathbydeceitoftensofthousandsofMuslims,ChristiansandJews.RobertFisk’sremarkablehistoryisalsothetaleofajournalistatwar–learningofthe9/11attackswhileaboardapassengerjet,reportingfromabombed-outBaghdad,interviewingOsamabinLaden–andofthecourageandfrustrationofalifespentwritingthefirstdraftofhistory.

【作者简介】

RobertFiskisabestsellingauthorandjournalistbasedinBeirutasMiddleEastcorrespondentofthe'Independent'.HehaslivedintheMiddleEastforthreedecadesandholdsmoreBritishandinternationaljournalismawardsthananyotherforeigncorrespondent.Heisalsotheauthorof'PitytheNation',ahistoryoftheLebanesewar,and'TheAgeoftheWarrior',ananthologyofhis'Comment'piecesfromthe'Independent'.

【目录】

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF MAPS

PREFACE

1 'One of Our Brothers Had a Dream 

2 'They Shoot Russians'

3 The Choirs of Kandahar

4 The Carpet-Weavers

5 The Path to War

6 'The Whirlwind War'

7 'War against War' and the Fast Train to Paradise

8 Drinking the Poisoned Chalice

9 'Sentenced to Suffer Death'

10 The First Holocaust

11 Fifty Thousand Miles from Palestine

12 The Last Colonial War

13 The Girl and the Child and Love

14 'Anything to Wipe Out a Devil ...'

15 Planet Damnation

16 Betrayal

17 The Land of Graves

18 The Plague

19 Now Thrive the Armourers...

20 Even to Kings, He Comes...

21 Why?

22 The Die Is Cast

23 Atomic Dog，Annihilator，Arsonist，Anthrax

and Agamemnon

24 Into the Wilderness

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

NoTES

CHRoNOLOGY

INDEX