PUBLISHED TO COINCIDE WITH THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY : On September 17 and 18, 2024, walkie-talkies distributed to Hezbollah in Lebanon exploded, killing 20 and injuring at least 450 people. These blasts were reported around the world and were a pivotal point in the war between Israel and Lebanon. PUTS A HUMAN FACE ON AN INTERNATIONAL WAR STORY : This book is a personal chronicle, an inside view, written by a doctor recently arrived with his family to practice medicine in Beirut at the time that the war intensified. His perspective on the death and injury of children and families and the disorientation and dismay of civilians on the ground, is a perspective that cannot be reported easily in the news. A GREAT READ : Well-written, engaging, compelling, and authoritative from a Lebanese doctor who returned to Lebanon after 25 years abroad, so his account combines the intimate knowledge of an insider with the critical distance of an outsider. ORIGINAL : To date there have been no books on the 2024 Israeli war on Lebanon FOR READERS OF : Akin to Yevgenia Belorusets' War Diary , but instead of Kyiv, it's Beirut. It has elements of David Nott's War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line . It will appeal to readers of the bestselling One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, and is something of a follow-up to Robert Fisk's Night of Power: the Betrayal of the Middle East which covers the 2006 Lebanon War.