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BOOK REVIEW

Author Blanford charts conflict between Hezbollah, Israel

By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
October 25, 2011

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In “Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah’s Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel,’’ author Nicholas Blanford provides a meticulous yet largely one-dimensional examination of the on-again off-again confrontation between Lebanon and Israel, a bloody encounter that has over the years detached itself from the larger Arab-Israeli conflict and assumed a dynamic all its own. Blanford’s book is essentially a military history of the wars between Hezbollah and Israel, the most recent of which occurred in 2006.

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WARRIORS OF GOD:

Inside Hezbollah”s Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel

By Nicholas Blanford

Random House, 522 pp., $30