Pity the Nation

Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War
Author Robert Fisk
Country Great Britain
Language English
Genre History, Current Affairs
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date
1990
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Kindle
Pages 681
ISBN 978-0-19-285235-9

Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War[1] is a book by award winning English journalist Robert Fisk.[2][3] The book is an account of the Lebanese civil war 1975–1990 which Fisk lived through and reported on. It gives an insight into the machinations of the war and has many eyewitness accounts from the people Fisk interviewed and interacted with at the time. The book also deals with the history of the foundation of Lebanon and its colonial past.

It goes into detail of the 1982 Lebanon war which was an invasion by the Israeli military and also the Sabra and Shatila massacre which Fisk was present at a day after it happened. The book covers the American, British, French and Italian intervention as Multinational Force in Lebanon and the evacuation of the PLO.

The book's title is taken from Khalil Gibran's eponymous poem, published in The Garden of the Prophet (1933).[4]

References

  1. Google books
  2. The Orwell Prize 1999
  3. The Independent 20 July 2001
  4. Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk
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