The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
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Robert Fisk. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION. The Conquest of the Middle East. ROBERT FISK
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CONTENTS
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PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE ‘One of Our Brothers Had a Dream …’
CHAPTER TWO ‘They Shoot Russians’
CHAPTER THREE. The Choirs of Kandahar
CHAPTER FOUR. The Carpet-Weavers
CHAPTER FIVE. The Path to War
CHAPTER SIX ‘The Whirlwind War’
CHAPTER SEVEN ‘War against War’ and the Fast Train to Paradise
CHAPTER EIGHT. Drinking the Poisoned Chalice
CHAPTER NINE ‘Sentenced to Suffer Death’
CHAPTER TEN. The First Holocaust
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Fifty Thousand Miles from Palestine
CHAPTER TWELVE. The Last Colonial War
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Girl and the Child and Love
CHAPTER FOURTEEN ‘Anything to Wipe Out a Devil …’
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Planet Damnation
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Betrayal
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Land of Graves
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. The Plague
CHAPTER NINETEEN. Now Thrive the Armourers …
CHAPTER TWENTY. Even to Kings, He Comes …
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. Why?
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. The Die Is Cast
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. Atomic Dog, Annihilator, Arsonist, Anthrax and Agamemnon
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. Into the Wilderness
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NOTES
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INDEX
INDEX CONTINUED
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHRONOLOGY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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