Pity the Nation

With the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartime levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Fisks explosive book recounts Sharon and Arafats first deadly encounter in Lebanon in the early 1980s and explains why the Israel/Palestine relationship seems so intractable. A remarkable combination of war reporting and analysis by an author who has witnessed the carnage of Beirut for 25 years.

Robert Fisk is the Middle East Bureau Chief for the Independent (UK) and has reported from Belfast, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. He is the world's most-decorated foreign correspondent, having won the British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year award seven times. The author of two previous books, Pity the Nation and The Great War for Civilisation, Fisk lives in Beirut and Ireland.