Jansen Michael. The Battle of Beirut: Why Israel Invaded Lebanon

South End Press, 1983. — 159 p.The Battle of Beirut is an indictment of what Israel has done in Lebanon: it explodes the myth that this was a ‘limited’ operation, that Israel did not intend to harm civilians, that casualties were minimal and that the PLO was ‘Holding Beirut hostage’. This book is not an instant history of Israel’s fifth war. It is a study, and an indictment, of what the Israeli military juggernaut did to the inhabitants of southern Lebanon, Lebanese and Palestinians, as it rolled northwards to Beirut and then what it did to the citizens of Beirut.