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The great war for civilisation : the conquest of the Middle East / Robert Fisk

This work provides an eyewitness account of the events shaping the Middle East over three decades. It chronicles regional conflicts and major historical turning points, including the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, as seen from a journalistic perspective.

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