Ariel the Unlucky
David Gilmour, 5 April 1990
Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon
by Ariel Sharon and David Chanoff.
Macdonald, 571 pp., £14.95, October 1989,0 356 17960 5 Show More
by Ariel Sharon and David Chanoff.
Macdonald, 571 pp., £14.95, October 1989,
The Slopes of Lebanon
by Amos Oz, translated by Maurie Goldberg-Bartura.
Chatto, 246 pp., £13.95, January 1990,0 7011 3444 5 Show More
by Amos Oz, translated by Maurie Goldberg-Bartura.
Chatto, 246 pp., £13.95, January 1990,
From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas Friedman.
Collins, 541 pp., £15, March 1990,0 00 215096 4 Show More
by Thomas Friedman.
Collins, 541 pp., £15, March 1990,
Pity the nation: Lebanon at War
by Robert Fisk.
Deutsch, 622 pp., £17.95, February 1990,0 233 98516 6 Show More
by Robert Fisk.
Deutsch, 622 pp., £17.95, February 1990,
“... 1982 was a critical time for the authors of all four of these books. It was the year of Ariel Sharon’s most sanguinary foreign venture, which ended in massacre, failure, and a measure of disgrace. For the Israeli novelist Amos Oz, it was the year ‘the Land of Israel’ died in Lebanon, while for him personally it aroused feelings of alienation, the sense of being an exile in his own land ... ”
