'' The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East '' is a book published in 2005 by the award-winning English journalist Robert Fisk . The book is a compilation of many of the articles Fisk wrote when he was serving as a correspondent in the Middle East for '' The Times '' and '' The Independent '' . The book revolves around several key themes regarding the history of the modern Middle East : the Arab – Israeli conflict , the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan , the Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003 Iraq War ( United States invasion of Iraq ) as well as other regional conflicts such as the Armenian Genocide and the Algerian Civil War . The '' Great War for Civilisation '' is the second book Fisk has written about the Middle East with the first one , '' Pity the Nation '' , ( Nation Books , 2002 ) being about the Lebanese Civil War
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