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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... in Ulster In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939–45 Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East THE AGE OF THE WARRIOR SELECTED ESSAYS ROBERT FISK New.
... in Ulster In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939–45 Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East THE AGE OF THE WARRIOR SELECTED ESSAYS ROBERT FISK New.
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... Middle East Airlines; the British National Archives at Kew for permission to quote from Colonial Office papers on the Grand Mufti in Beirut; Dr Michael Noll of Valdosta State University, Georgia, USA; film-maker and journalist Nelofer ...
... Middle East Airlines; the British National Archives at Kew for permission to quote from Colonial Office papers on the Grand Mufti in Beirut; Dr Michael Noll of Valdosta State University, Georgia, USA; film-maker and journalist Nelofer ...
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... Middle East in my two histories, of Lebanon and of the West's involvement in the region over the past century, a volume whose witness to suffering and pain caused me – during its writing – much distress; there is another to come, a ...
... Middle East in my two histories, of Lebanon and of the West's involvement in the region over the past century, a volume whose witness to suffering and pain caused me – during its writing – much distress; there is another to come, a ...
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... Middle East demand – and everything to do with avoidance. Ask 'how' and 'who' – but not 'why'. Source everything to ... Middle East Correspondent of The Independent of London, I endure a charmed but dangerous life. I travel to Iraq ...
... Middle East demand – and everything to do with avoidance. Ask 'how' and 'who' – but not 'why'. Source everything to ... Middle East Correspondent of The Independent of London, I endure a charmed but dangerous life. I travel to Iraq ...
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... Middle East – leading irrevocably to the attacks of 11 September and thus the assault on Afghanistan and the preparations for an even more ambitious subjugation of Iraq – suggests that our politicians and our journalists are able to ...
... Middle East – leading irrevocably to the attacks of 11 September and thus the assault on Afghanistan and the preparations for an even more ambitious subjugation of Iraq – suggests that our politicians and our journalists are able to ...
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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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