How long does it take to read The Great War for Civilisation?
The Conquest of the Middle East
The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk takes about 21 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 21 hours
A long haul
First published 2005. 1,145 pages, about 314,875 words.
42 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 34 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 21 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 13 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city at the time) to the Iran-Iraq War, from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel’s invasions of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq. Now he brings his knowledge, his firsthand experience and his intimate understanding of the Middle East to a book that addresses the full complexity of its political history and its current state of affairs. --Random House Publishing
Subjects: History, Military, Military History, Politics and government, War correspondents, Middle east, history, Middle east, politics and government
