The Great War for Civilisation The Conquest of the Middle East

London: Harpercollins/Fourth Estate. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2005. Third Printing. Hardcover. 184115007X . Dust jacket shows some bruising head and tail of spine, light soil and a couple of scratches. Bookshows light edge wear, few creased pages. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. This substantial book may require extra postage. ; 9.2 X 6.5 X 2.8 inches; 1328 pages; "This is the author's first-person account of fifty years of bloodshed and tragedy in the area, from the Palestinian-Israeli bloodbath to the shock and awe of the recent war against Iraq. 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." .