When a Tunisian vegetable seller blew himself up in protest at the constant abuses of the authoritarian government of his country, few could imagine what would come next. The Arab Spring overthrew brutal dictators - whose iron mandates could not have happened without the complicity or frank support of Western powers - in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya, and unleashed one of the bloodiest civil wars of the modern era in Syria. Tunisia managed to make a moderately hopeful democratic transition, while in Egypt a military junta commanded by General Abdelfatah Al-Sisi overthrew President Mohamed Morsi; In Yemen political fractures seem to lead the country to the abyss, and Libya is plunged into a civil war in which two governments manage different zones and Islamist militias, mainly branches of the Islamic State and groups affiliated to Al-Qaeda, have carried out Terrorist attacks on hotels and abducted and beheaded groups of Egyptian Christians and media activists. These chronicles of Jon Lee Anderson produce forms within the chaos and sense within the barbarism in order to be able to fully understand the implications and details of what is happening in Libya.