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.
Chapter 1: “One of Our Brothers Had a Dream . . . ”
Chapter 2: “They Shoot Russians”
Chapter 3: The Choirs of Kandahar
Chapter 6: “The Whirlwind War”
Chapter 7: “War against War” and the Fast Train to Paradise
Chapter 8: Drinking the Poisoned Chalice
Chapter 9: “Sentenced to Suffer Death”
Chapter 10: The First Holocaust
Chapter 11: Fifty Thousand Miles from Palestine
Chapter 12: The Last Colonial War
Chapter 13: The Girl and the Child and Love
Chapter 14: “Anything to Wipe Out a Devil . . . ”
Chapter 17: The Land of Graves
Chapter 19: Now Thrive the Armourers ...
Chapter 20: Even to Kings, He Comes ...
Chapter 23: Atomic Dog, Annihilator, Arsonist, Anthrax, Anguish and Agamemnon
Chapter 24: Into the Wilderness