Vivid personal reporting and incisive, angry historical analysis make Robert Fisk's passionate eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East in to an unforgettable work. Thirty years at the heart of world-shaking events have produced a masterpiece that is personal, tragic and compassionate, a chronicle of the death by deceit of tens of thousands of men and women - Muslim, Christian and Jew - and of the life and work of one of the world's most acclaimed journalists.