The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays by Robert FiskPublicAffairs, 2008. júl. 29. - 544 oldal Robert Fisk has amassed a massive and devoted global readership with his eloquent and far-ranging articles on international politics. Now, for the first time, his brave and incisive essays have been collected in a single volume that ranges in scope from the recent war in Lebanon to the rise of Hamas; from the invasion of Kuwait to the looting of Baghdad; from America's imperial ambitions to the inescapable influence of the Treaty of Versailles. Taken together, these articles form an unparalleled account of our war-torn recent history. |
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... Afghan refugee Mohamed Ziya. My thanks also to Encyclopaedia Britannica for permission to reproduce T. E. Lawrence's 1929 article 'Guerrilla'. Finally, my immense gratitude, as always, goes to my Editor at The Independent, Simon Kelner ...
... Afghan refugee Mohamed Ziya. My thanks also to Encyclopaedia Britannica for permission to reproduce T. E. Lawrence's 1929 article 'Guerrilla'. Finally, my immense gratitude, as always, goes to my Editor at The Independent, Simon Kelner ...
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... which is already being cut into the sand by our folly in Iraq and in Afghanistan and 'Palestine', in Lebanon and in Iran and in the dictatorships of the Muslim world. The collection of articles in this book, most of them preface.
... which is already being cut into the sand by our folly in Iraq and in Afghanistan and 'Palestine', in Lebanon and in Iran and in the dictatorships of the Muslim world. The collection of articles in this book, most of them preface.
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... Afghanistan, Syria, 'Palestine', Israel. I live in Lebanon. I have covered, over thirty-two years in the Middle East, eleven major wars, countless insurgencies and more massacres – more sheer bloody slaughter – than I care to count. And ...
... Afghanistan, Syria, 'Palestine', Israel. I live in Lebanon. I have covered, over thirty-two years in the Middle East, eleven major wars, countless insurgencies and more massacres – more sheer bloody slaughter – than I care to count. And ...
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... Afghanistan and the preparations for an even more ambitious subjugation of Iraq – suggests that our politicians and our journalists are able to overcome this scruple. The peoples of the Middle East – though not their leaders – often ...
... Afghanistan and the preparations for an even more ambitious subjugation of Iraq – suggests that our politicians and our journalists are able to overcome this scruple. The peoples of the Middle East – though not their leaders – often ...
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... . And I have my own testimony of how quickly violent death can approach. Assaulted by a crowd of Afghans in a Pakistani border village in 2001 – their families had just been slaughtered in an American a firestorm coming 5.
... . And I have my own testimony of how quickly violent death can approach. Assaulted by a crowd of Afghans in a Pakistani border village in 2001 – their families had just been slaughtered in an American a firestorm coming 5.
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Words words words | 83 |
Cinema begins to mirror the world | 145 |
The greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis | 185 |
When I was a child I understood as a child | 203 |
The old mandates | 227 |
The cult of cruelty | 281 |
We have lost our faith and they have not | 327 |
A thing invulnerable | 367 |
America America | 403 |
Unanswered questions | 437 |
The last enemy | 461 |
A street named Petain and the woman he sent | 492 |
index | 499 |
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