Libya: The Struggle for Survival

by Lono Ho'ala, Sandra J Balli

Overview

This book chart in detail the West's response, particularly that of the US, to Libya's possible involvement in the bombing of the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie in 1988.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349226351
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 1993
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition - Foreword; Tam Dalyell, MP - Preface - Acknowledgements - Maps - Introduction - PART 1: LIBYA IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER - Lockerbie, Libya and the West - PART 2: THE HISTORY OF LIBYA - The Libyan Past - The Fourth Shore - From Idris to Gaddafi - The Oil Factor - Libyan Revolution - PART 3: TERRORISM AND THE US RESPONSE - International Ambitions - United States versus Gaddafi - References - Bibliography - Appendices - Index

Editorial Reviews

'Geoff Simons has performed a service to the English-speaking world by writing the first, serious and comprehensive assessment of the late-twentieth-century Libya available in the English language.' - Tam Dalyell, MP

'A work of great authority and importance. Geoff Simons wipes away the web of Western camouflage, hypocrisy and deceit to discover the utterly disreputable truth.' - Harold Pinter

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