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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... Another of Arthur's damned farthings 204 First mate Edward Fisk 208 'Come on, Sutton!' 212 Cold war nights 216 'All ... earth of Lebanon's sovereignty' 247 Alphonse Bechir's spectacles 251 The cat who ate missile wire for breakfast 254 ...
... Another of Arthur's damned farthings 204 First mate Edward Fisk 208 'Come on, Sutton!' 212 Cold war nights 216 'All ... earth of Lebanon's sovereignty' 247 Alphonse Bechir's spectacles 251 The cat who ate missile wire for breakfast 254 ...
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... world we live in, even for those of us who have never been within a thousand ... another to come, a companion volume that will take the reader down the road ... world. The collection of articles in this book, most of them preface.
... world we live in, even for those of us who have never been within a thousand ... another to come, a companion volume that will take the reader down the road ... world. The collection of articles in this book, most of them preface.
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... Second World War. The Bastard's final promise in King John is simple enough: Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. But the true believers ...
... Second World War. The Bastard's final promise in King John is simple enough: Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. But the true believers ...
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... the circumcised dog, And smote him thus. That, I fear, is the dagger that we now feel in all our hearts. The Independent Magazine, 30 March 2007 Flirting with the enemy After the Second World War, Palestine a firestorm coming 13.
... the circumcised dog, And smote him thus. That, I fear, is the dagger that we now feel in all our hearts. The Independent Magazine, 30 March 2007 Flirting with the enemy After the Second World War, Palestine a firestorm coming 13.
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Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. Flirting. with. the. enemy. After the Second World War, Palestine was crumbling. Menachem Begin's Irgun had blown up British headquarters at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the British were ...
Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. Flirting. with. the. enemy. After the Second World War, Palestine was crumbling. Menachem Begin's Irgun had blown up British headquarters at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the British were ...
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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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