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The burning shores : inside the battle for the new Libya
- Title
- The burning shores : inside the battle for the new Libya / Frederic Wehrey.
- Author
- Wehrey, Frederic M.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 326 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis. In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline reporting, analysis, and history, Frederic Wehrey tells the story of what went wrong. An Arabic-speaking Middle East scholar, Wehrey interviewed the key actors in Libya and paints vivid portraits of lives upended by a country in turmoil: the once-hopeful activists murdered or exiled, revolutionaries transformed into militia bosses or jihadist recruits, an aging general who promises salvation from the chaos in exchange for a return to the old authoritarianism. He traveled where few Westerners have gone, from the shattered city of Benghazi, birthplace of the revolution, to the lawless Sahara, to the coastal stronghold of the Islamic State in Qadhafi's hometown of Sirt. He chronicles the American and international missteps after the dictator's death that hastened the country's unraveling. Written with bravura, based on daring reportage, and informed by deep knowledge, The Burning Shores is the definitive account of Libya's fall.
- Subjects
- Libya
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
- Libya > Politics and government > 21st century
- Politics and government
- HISTORY / Africa / North
- Economic history
- History
- Civil War (Libya : 2011-)
- 2000-2099
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African
- Military participation > American
- Libya > History > Civil War, 2011- > Participation, American
- Libya > Economic conditions > 21st century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- No ownership -- "The tent conquered the castle" -- Uprising -- Intervention -- False hope -- Unraveling -- Young men with guns -- "We don't know who's who" -- The attack on the Americans -- The revolution devours its own -- Collapse -- "This is dignity" -- Civil war -- Europe's African shores -- The Islamic State's African home -- The strongman -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-4053
- ISBN
- 9780374278243
- 0374278245
- LCCN
- 2017049275
- OCLC
- 1007504046
- Author
- Wehrey, Frederic M., author.
- Title
- The burning shores : inside the battle for the new Libya / Frederic Wehrey.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-4053