num_pages: 1111
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
titlecomplete: The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
genres: Society, Politics, Historical, Islam, World History, Military Fiction, War, Nonfiction, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 5096
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Vintage Books/Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, Inc.