A obra derradeira do correspondente estrangeiro Robert Fisk é a continuação do aclamado "A Grande Guerra pela Civilização", começando com o rescaldo da invasão do Iraque em 2005.
Das revoltas árabes e a guerra civil síria até aos conflitos de Israel com a Palestina e o Líbano, Fisk condena a hipocrisia e a interferência do Ocidente, ao mesmo tempo que revela a terrível verdade sobre a vida no terreno. Sem receio de criticar a autoridade e de desvendar verdades complexas, cria uma narrativa convincente que conjuga jornalismo apaixonado e cativante com análise histórica e relatos de testemunhas oculares.
Robert Fisk was an English writer and journalist. As Middle East correspondent of The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported on the United States'war in Afghanistan and its 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. The New York Times once described Robert Fisk as "probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain.
Fisk has said that journalism must "challenge authority, all authority, especially so when governments and politicians take us to war." He is a pacifist and has never voted.