The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays by Robert FiskPublicAffairs, 2008/07/29 - 544 ページ 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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... And I can say what I think. It is a privilege and it is a trust – especially in a country, Britain, where the system of democracy has been so badly stained (principally by former prime minister Blair) that the press preface xv.
... And I can say what I think. It is a privilege and it is a trust – especially in a country, Britain, where the system of democracy has been so badly stained (principally by former prime minister Blair) that the press preface xv.
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... Prime Minister, whom he delights in calling Lord of Kut al-Amara. Not all his readers will understand his reference, but I do ... It was a terrible tragedy when it happened in the Great War, and even worse when the POWs had to march to ...
... Prime Minister, whom he delights in calling Lord of Kut al-Amara. Not all his readers will understand his reference, but I do ... It was a terrible tragedy when it happened in the Great War, and even worse when the POWs had to march to ...
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... arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose. * USA Today 3 November 2006. * Lebanon's first post-independence prime minister. He was assassinated in a firestorm coming 11.
... arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose. * USA Today 3 November 2006. * Lebanon's first post-independence prime minister. He was assassinated in a firestorm coming 11.
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... 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, Founder 1951 ...
... 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, Founder 1951 ...
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... 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 good for a ...
... 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 good for 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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