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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... Lebanese prime minister, Riad Solh,* but the Lebanese insisted that 'a member of the Suˆrete ́' was in. * Lebanon's first post-independence prime minister. He was assassinated in * Zvi Elpeleg, The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin al-Husseini ...
... Lebanese prime minister, Riad Solh,* but the Lebanese insisted that 'a member of the Suˆrete ́' was in. * Lebanon's first post-independence prime minister. He was assassinated in * Zvi Elpeleg, The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin al-Husseini ...
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Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. Lebanese insisted that 'a member of the Suˆrete ́' was in constant attendance on Haj Amin, that his activities would be 'controlled and restricted' by the Lebanese and that he 'would not be ...
Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. Lebanese insisted that 'a member of the Suˆrete ́' was in constant attendance on Haj Amin, that his activities would be 'controlled and restricted' by the Lebanese and that he 'would not be ...
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... Lebanese prime minister, had already offered to arrange a meeting between the Mufti and a Beirut-based British diplomat called Evans, over cups of tea – Evans had been 'non-committal' to the idea – but 'I think it would be all to the ...
... Lebanese prime minister, had already offered to arrange a meeting between the Mufti and a Beirut-based British diplomat called Evans, over cups of tea – Evans had been 'non-committal' to the idea – but 'I think it would be all to the ...
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... Lebanese civilians by the Israelis at the UN base at Qana in southern Lebanon in April 1996. Why had Clinton not condemned this 'terrorist act', he asked. (In fact, Bill Clinton called it a 'tragedy', as if it was some form of natural ...
... Lebanese civilians by the Israelis at the UN base at Qana in southern Lebanon in April 1996. Why had Clinton not condemned this 'terrorist act', he asked. (In fact, Bill Clinton called it a 'tragedy', as if it was some form of natural ...
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... Lebanese guerrilla force that drove Israel's demoralised army out of Lebanon in the year 2000 – is planning attacks in the US. After that, we had an American television network 'revealing' that Hizballah, Hamas and al-Qaeda have held a ...
... Lebanese guerrilla force that drove Israel's demoralised army out of Lebanon in the year 2000 – is planning attacks in the US. After that, we had an American television network 'revealing' that Hizballah, Hamas and al-Qaeda have held a ...
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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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