The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle

Not since Thomas Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem in 1989 has a journalist offered such a poignant and passionate portrait of Lebanon-a uniquely pluralist Arab country struggling to defend its viability in a turbulent and treacherous Middle East.

Michael Young, who was taken to Lebanon at age seven by his Lebanese mother after the death of his American father and who has worked most of his career as a journalist there for American publications, brings to life a country in the crossfire of...