THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION

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 forty 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