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Robert Irwin, 1 August 1996
The Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Birth of Christianity to the Present Day
by Bernard Lewis.
Weidenfeld, 433 pp., £20, September 1995,0 297 81345 5 Show More
by Bernard Lewis.
Weidenfeld, 433 pp., £20, September 1995,
“... the text of The Middle East has not been written by the author of the captions. Bernard Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, is a fluent, lively, erudite and lucid writer. He also has an eye for the pointillist anecdote and pithy maxim culled from the primary sources. His book appears in a ‘History of ... ”