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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... live in, even for those of us who have never been within a thousand miles of its borders. The war's colossal loss in human life – primarily Iraqi, of course – and the lies that formed a bodyguard for our invasion troops in 2003 should ...
... live in, even for those of us who have never been within a thousand miles of its borders. The war's colossal loss in human life – primarily Iraqi, of course – and the lies that formed a bodyguard for our invasion troops in 2003 should ...
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... live, the age of terror – which means that we must live in the Age of the Warrior, someone whose business and profession and vocation and mere existence is to destroy our enemies. As Middle East Correspondent of The Independent of ...
... live, the age of terror – which means that we must live in the Age of the Warrior, someone whose business and profession and vocation and mere existence is to destroy our enemies. As Middle East Correspondent of The Independent of ...
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... lives saved'. The equally distressed soldier Williams argues that if the English cause is doubtful, '... the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make when all those legs and arms and heads, chopp'd off in a battle, shall join ...
... lives saved'. The equally distressed soldier Williams argues that if the English cause is doubtful, '... the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make when all those legs and arms and heads, chopp'd off in a battle, shall join ...
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... and the covert racism of Bush. When he sends Ariel to wreck the usurping King Alonso's ship on his island, the airy spirit returns with an account of his success which – despite his subsequent saving of lives – is a firestorm coming 9.
... and the covert racism of Bush. When he sends Ariel to wreck the usurping King Alonso's ship on his island, the airy spirit returns with an account of his success which – despite his subsequent saving of lives – is a firestorm coming 9.
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Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. which – despite his subsequent saving of lives – is of near Twin Towers dimensions: Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flam'd amazement. Sometime I'd divide, And burn in many places ...
Selected Essays by Robert Fisk Robert Fisk. which – despite his subsequent saving of lives – is of near Twin Towers dimensions: Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flam'd amazement. Sometime I'd divide, And burn in many places ...
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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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