Publication

1998 - St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

58,500 words, Guess

Page Count

234 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL357764M
  • ISBN-100312215932
  • OCLC Control Number38910100
  • Library of Congress Control Number98017681
  • LibraryThing6416329
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  • Goodreads1767690

Classifications

  • DDC956.9204/4
  • LCCDS87.5 .O14 1998

Description

This is an account of the turbulent saga of the only Arab state that has a nominal Christian majority. Packed with rival religious sects, feudal chieftains, war lords, squabbling political leaders, and in-house and foreign militias, Lebanon has suffered not only periods of civil war and internal infighting, but also invasions by Palestinians, Syrians and Israelis. It has survived as a republican entity, although shattered, exhausted and bankrupt. The 16-year long civil war in which Christian militias fought to eject Palestinian armed forces began in 1975. Western intervention was repelled by suicide-bombing attacks, and Lebanese Christians and Muslims sub-divided to fight each other. This book tells the story of a civil war was notable for massacres, treachery, atrocities, kidnapping, assassination, changing alliances of convenience, and invasions.

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