Pity the Nation
Lebanon at War
1st Edition
Published on 7. February 1991
1391 pages
978-0-19-163175-7 (ISBN)
Description
Pity the Nation will rank among the classic accounts of war in our time, both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this remarkable book combines 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 over a decade.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Otherfm
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology of events
- Principal Characters
- map1
- map2
- map3
- 1 Sepia Pictures on a Wall
- 2 The Keys of Palestine
- 3 The Pied Piper of Damascus
- 4 The Garden of Earthly Delights
- 5 The Gentleman from Marjayoun
- 6 Let Them Come!
- 7 No White Flags
- 8 The Gravedigger's Diary
- 9 Surgical Precision
- 10 Dawn at Midnight
- 11 Terrorists
- 12 Pandora's Box
- 13 The 'Root'
- 14 Beirut Addio
- 15 The Retreat
- 16 Wait for me
- 17 Freedom
- 18 The Massacre
- Bibliography
- Index
- Footnote
