The Great War for Civilisation
by Robert Fisk


  
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Book Description

Thorough, intense, absorbing, graphic, magisterial, angry, overwhelmingly detailed, infuriating, depressing, stimulating, exhausting, and riveting are just some of the adjectives readers will find applicable to Robert Fisk’s The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. It took me months to read, but it was worth every moment I spent with it. Fisk, a British journalist, is a war correspondent’s war correspondent, and this book is the perfect choice for any interested reader willing to invest a lot of time and emotional energy in a political history of the modern Middle East. Early in the book Fisk says, “It is the fate of journalists to be in the right place at the right time, and, more frequently, in the wrong place at the wrong time.” From a front row seat at the birth of Khomeini’s Iran in the late 1970s to Abu Ghraib in 2003, from an early interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1993, when the leader-to-be of al Qaeda was describing himself as a construction engineer, building highways in Sudan, to reporting from Fallujah in Iraq, Fisk has been there, done that, met everyone who’s anyone in the region, and written about it. Fisk doesn’t equivocate regarding his views of the current crisis in the Middle East, or the many missteps he judges world leaders to have made from World War I to the present, but whether one agrees or disagrees with his analysis and conclusions, Fisk’s clear exposition and deep understanding of the complex culture and history of the area make this an important contribution to an informed debate about the fate of the Middle East, and, as the title implies, of civilization as we know it.