A History of the Modern Middle East
by William L. Cleveland | 
Pity the Nation
by Robert Fisk | 
The Middle East
by Bernard Lewis | 
A Middle East Mosaic
by Bernard Lewis | 
From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman | 
The Modern Middle East
by James L. Gelvin | 
A Peace to End All Peace
by David Fromkin | 
1967
by Tom Segev | 
Black Wave
by Kim Ghattas | 
Generation Kill
by Evan Wright | 
Drift
by Rachel Maddow | 
Ghost Wars
by Steve Coll | 
Fiasco
by Thomas E. Ricks | 
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran | 
The March of Folly
by Barbara W. Tuchman | 
Dereliction of Duty
by H. R. McMaster | 
America's War for the Greater Middle East
by Andrew J. Bacevich | 
Kill Anything That Moves
by Nick Turse | 
Overthrow
by Stephen Kinzer | 
The Fall of the Ottomans
by Eugene Rogan |
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.