Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780333729755
Brand
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Edgar O'Ballance
Producer
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
260
Year of production
1998
Binding
145x225
This work discusses the 16-year civil war in Lebanon which was caused by dissatisfaction over the distribution of political power. The system favoured Christians who fought to eject Palestinian armed forces, which sought to use the country as a spring board for attacks into adjacent Israel. Western intervention was repelled by suicide bombing attacks. Lebanese Christians and Muslims sub-divided to fight each other. Dominated by competing war lords, this civil war was notable for massacres, treachery, atrocities, kidnapping, assassination, changing alliances of convenience, and invasions.