“This is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for twentysix years. It is the story of western betrayal and the loss of American power and prestige in the Middle East. The book tells, too, in frightening detail, the story of the Middle Easts first suicide bombers and their first devastating srike at Americans.Fisk derscribes Lebonon's ferocious civl war and subsequent Israeli invasions., the Lebanese militias whose appalling brutality spared no one.the US Marines who found themselves trapped in the horror of Lebanon where many of them were to meet a terrible fate.and the Isralis who tried to install their own puppet rulers, and with their 1982 invasion provoked war crimes of their own”
Dee wrote this review Tuesday, June 24 2008.
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