This book charts the 21-year (1911-1932) history of Libyan resistance against Italian invasion. It looks at the subject from a variety of angles, including military, socio-economic and also human. It gives a large place to the causes that incited the Italians to invade; and as it goes through the invasion, it highlights its extremely brutal character. The main focus is on the remarkable stand by the Libyans, who against a far more numerous enemy, far better armed with all the means of modern warfare, managed to put up possibly the longest and surely the costliest resistance (in proportion to their total population) to any invader in history. The Libyan war for liberation is indeed the best illustration in history of bravery and sacrifice for higher ideals than the self. This book covers this little known and yet remarkable phase in history.
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About the Author
Dr Salah Eddine Al-Djazairi is an experienced historian, researcher and writer with over 30 years of academic experience. He has lectured, tutored and researched at the University of Constantine in Algeria, the University of Manchester’ Geography Department and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He has also given many public lectures as invited speaker at various institutions in the UK and online.
He has published academic articles in leading journals, contributed to well-known encyclopaedias, and written books on topics such as environmental degradation and desertification in the Muslim World, the history of science and technology, Muslim civilization, and the Crusades.
He is known and liked by his readers for his unique style of being rigorously academic in his research and providing plenty of footnotes yet being accessible and clear to a wider audience, debunking myth and pointing out distortions, and not mincing his words. The strength of his work lies also in using Muslim as well as non-Muslim sources in different languages, old and new.
When he isn’t writing, he likes to sit in silence and think. He can also be found cooking, going on long walks and spending time in nature.
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