Robert Fisk
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Robert William Fisk was an English writer and journalist. He was critical of United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.
Fisk at Al Jazeera Forum 2010
Robert Fisk in 2008
Fisk book signing in 2015
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East is a book published in 2005 by the English journalist Robert Fisk. The book is based on many of the articles Fisk wrote when he was serv
Robert Fisk
…Reporter of the Year seven times. Fisk's books include The Point of No Return (1975), In Time of War (1985), Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (1990), The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (2005), and Syria: Descent Into the Abyss (2015). The noun fisking (meaning a point-by-point rebuttal) and the related verb fisk were named after him…
The dust jacket of the 2005 UK edition
The first two chapters of the book focus on Fisk's first hand accounts of the first year of the Soviet–Afghan War. Above, Soviet Spetsnaz prepare for a military operation.
An Iranian soldier wearing a gas mask during the Iran–Iraq War.