Pity the Nation ranks between the basic accounts of war in our time, each as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Created by one particular of Britain’s foremost journalists, this impressive guide moyen political analysis and war reporting in an unprecedented way: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for in excess of a decade. Fisk’s guide recounts the specifics of a horrible war but it also tells a tale of betrayal and illusion, of Western blindness that experienced led inevitably to political and army catastrophe. Up-to-date and revised, Fisk’s e book offers us a even more insight into this troubled component of the world.

“Robert Fisk is a single of the excellent reporters of this generation. As a war correpondent he is unrivalled.” - Edward Mortimer, Fiscal Occasions