WRITER

Robert Fisk

1946 - 2020

Robert Fisk

Robert William Fisk (12 July 1946 – 30 October 2020) 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. As an international correspondent, he covered the civil wars in Lebanon, Algeria, and Syria, the Iran–Iraq conflict, the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Islamic revolution in Iran, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and the U.S. invasion, and occupation of Iraq. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Fisk has received more than 1,104,444 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Robert Fisk is the 3,075th most popular writer (up from 3,665th in 2019), the 2,240th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,692nd in 2019) and the 257th most popular British Writer.

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Notable Works

1990

The Great War for Civilisation

Colonization, History, Military, Military History

2005

In time of war

Espionage, German, Diplomatic history, Neutrality

1983

Pity the nation

Bürgerkrieg (1975-1991), History, Lebanon Civil War, 1975-

1990

The Great War for civilisation

History, Military, Military History, Politics and government

During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city at the time) to the Iran-Iraq War, from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel’s invasions of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq. Now he brings his knowledge, his firsthand experience and his intimate understanding of the Middle East to a book that addresses the full complexity of its political history and its current state of affairs. --Random House Publishing

2005

Computerized accounting

Accounting, Computer-assisted instruction, Programmed instruction

1992

Pity the nation

Bürgerkrieg (1975-1991), History, Lebanon Civil War, 1975-

"Written by one of Britain's most distinguished journalists, this remarkable book is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for twenty-six years. It is a story of western betrayal and the loss of American power and prestige in the Middle East. This book tells, too, in frightening detail, the story of the Middle East's first suicide bombers and their first devastating strike at Americans. Through a combination of war reporting and political analysis. Robert Fisk describes Lebanon's ferocious civil war and subsequent Israeli invasions, the Lebanese militias whose appalling brutality spared no one; the US Marines who found themselves trapped in the horror of Lebanon where many of them were to meet a terrible fate; and the Israelis, who tried to install their own puppet rulers, and with their 1982 invasion provoked war crimes of their own. Fully updated to include the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon and Ariel Sharon's electoral victory, this American edition has sixty pages of new material and a revised preface."--BOOK JACKET.

1990

The Great War for civilisation

History, Military, Military History, Politics and government

2005

Night of Power

2012

The Great War for Civilisation

Colonization, History, Military, Military History

2005

In time of war

Espionage, German, Diplomatic history, Neutrality

1983