The Tragedy of Lebanon is a reissue of Jonathan Randal"s widely acclaimed 1983 study of the rightwing Christian militias in Lebanon that in 1975 launched a bloody bid for power that plunged the country into a decades-long cycle of war and civil conflict. For this 2012 reissue, Randal has added a piercing new Preface that reflects on the meaning of those events, both then and today. We have also used the same main title used in the British version of the book, rather than the main title in the original U.S. version, "Going All the Way"-- a title that, as Randal reveals in the new Preface, was suggested to him in a Beirut bar by none other than John le Carre. As the Senior Foreign Correspondent of The Washington Post , and with several stints as a war correspondent already on his resume, Jonathan Randal covered Lebanon intensively from 1974 until 1983. In...