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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... William and Peggy Fisk; diver Christian Francis of Enfeh, Lebanon; Jim Harland of Blyth, Northumberland; Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker; Marion Irvine, sister of Bill Cadman who was killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie; Adrien ...
... William and Peggy Fisk; diver Christian Francis of Enfeh, Lebanon; Jim Harland of Blyth, Northumberland; Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker; Marion Irvine, sister of Bill Cadman who was killed on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie; Adrien ...
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Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. travels to a Beirut still ravaged by war, his 'wife' – his most precious musical instrument – strapped beside him in seat 1K. And you will meet again my soldier father Bill who bravely refused ...
Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. travels to a Beirut still ravaged by war, his 'wife' – his most precious musical instrument – strapped beside him in seat 1K. And you will meet again my soldier father Bill who bravely refused ...
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Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. 'Thank. you,. Mr. Clinton,. for. the. kind. words'. In August, 1998, following ... Bill Clinton launched a cruise missile attack on Sudan and on a base in Afghanistan at which Osama bin Laden was ...
Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. 'Thank. you,. Mr. Clinton,. for. the. kind. words'. In August, 1998, following ... Bill Clinton launched a cruise missile attack on Sudan and on a base in Afghanistan at which Osama bin Laden was ...
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Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. ation and America's friendship for ordinary Iraqis – before bombing every ... Bill Clinton telling the people of the Middle East that Islam was one of the world's great religions. As my Beirut ...
Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. ation and America's friendship for ordinary Iraqis – before bombing every ... Bill Clinton telling the people of the Middle East that Islam was one of the world's great religions. As my Beirut ...
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Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan is that they come when America's word ... Bill Clinton called it a 'tragedy', as if it was some form of natural disaster – the Israelis said it was a 'mistake ...
Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan is that they come when America's word ... Bill Clinton called it a 'tragedy', as if it was some form of natural disaster – the Israelis said it was a 'mistake ...
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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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