Sandstorm : Libya in the time of revolution /
Hilsum, Lindsey.
Sandstorm : Libya in the time of revolution / Lindsey Hilsum. - London : Faber and Faber, 2012. - 288 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- The people demand the fall of the regime -- The strange world of Muammar Gadaffi -- Subversives and stray dogs -- Massacre at Abu Salim -- That mad dog of the Middle East -- King of kings of Africa -- Sons and daughters -- Spies, diplomats and drones -- The battle for Tripoli -- After the revolution.
Describes the 2011 defeat of Libya's dictator Muammar Gadaffi by his own people, tracing the story of Gadaffi's regime from its early days of popular appeal to the fear and corruption of its final years from the perspectives of five Libyan rebels.
9780571288045
Qaddafi, Muammar.
Libya--History--Civil War, 2011-
Revolutions--Libya.
Libia--Historia--Guerra civil, 2011.
Revoluciones--Libia.
Libya--History--1969-
525 DT 236 / H655s 2012
Sandstorm : Libya in the time of revolution / Lindsey Hilsum. - London : Faber and Faber, 2012. - 288 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- The people demand the fall of the regime -- The strange world of Muammar Gadaffi -- Subversives and stray dogs -- Massacre at Abu Salim -- That mad dog of the Middle East -- King of kings of Africa -- Sons and daughters -- Spies, diplomats and drones -- The battle for Tripoli -- After the revolution.
Describes the 2011 defeat of Libya's dictator Muammar Gadaffi by his own people, tracing the story of Gadaffi's regime from its early days of popular appeal to the fear and corruption of its final years from the perspectives of five Libyan rebels.
9780571288045
Qaddafi, Muammar.
Libya--History--Civil War, 2011-
Revolutions--Libya.
Libia--Historia--Guerra civil, 2011.
Revoluciones--Libia.
Libya--History--1969-
525 DT 236 / H655s 2012