After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career—in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad—watching the people within those borders burn.


The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (ed. Vintage, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307428714

Robert Fisk Quotes

After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just...

After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just...

After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just...

After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just...