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Author Hilsum, Lindsey.

Title Sandstorm : Libya in the time of revolution / Lindsey Hilsum.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  961.2042 HI    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The people demand the fall of the regime -- The strange world of Muammar Gaddafi -- 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.
Summary Describes the 2011 defeat of Libya's dictator Muammar Gaddafi by his own people, tracing the story of Gaddafi'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.
Subject Libya -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
Revolutions -- Libya.
Qaddafi, Muammar.
Libya -- History -- 1969-
ISBN 9781594205064
159420506X
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