Descrizione
Sixty years have passed since the 1948 Palestinian exodus to Lebanon ignited the fuse of a complex political-religious conflict that has not subsided to this day. Since then, Lebanon has ceased to be the sweet land of cedars and olive trees, to become a land of eternal damnation, drowned in the blood of its numerous religious communities. Syria and Israel invaded it and made it the battlefield of a fratricidal battle: refugees and civilians mercilessly slaughtered, cities besieged, bombed and tortured several times, biblical exoduses driven by terror. Continuous bloody attacks have undermined the fragile Lebanese democracy. A constant direct witness to those events, Robert Fisk retraces the history of a martyred nation and its people, of a political and military catastrophe that the unreasonableness of the great powers has never been able or wanted to avoid. Written by the man the New York Times called the world’s most famous war correspondent, “The Martyrdom of a Nation” blends war reporting and political analysis, personal diary and historical fresco, in an epic and shocking narrative that delves into the past in search of the roots of the Lebanese drama.
