The age of the warrior : selected essays / Robert Fisk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A firestorm coming -- Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war -- Flirting with the enemy -- 'Thank you, Mr Clinton, for the kind words' -- Brace yourself for Part Two of the War for Civilisation -- The pit of desperation -- The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war -- 'You are not welcome' -- Be very afraid: Bush Productions is preparing to go into action -- 'Our guys may kick them around a little ...' -- The wind from the East -- 2. Publish and be damned? Or stay silent? -- So let me denounce genocide from the dock -- You're talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador -- Armenia's 1,500,001st genocide victim -- Sneaking a book out in silence -- 'A conflict of interest' -- Bravery, tears and broken dreams -- A holocaust denier in the White House -- 3. Words, words, words ... -- Hack blasts local rags -- We should have listened to Bin Laden -- The jargon disease -- Poisonous academics and their claptrap of exclusion -- Soft words - hard questions -- The pen, the telex, the phone and the despised e-mail -- The forgotten art of handwriting -- 'Believe it or not!' -- Murder is murder is murder ... -- Ah, Mary, you poor diddums -- 'A very edgy situation' -- 'Abu Henry': what diplomats can get up to -- A lesson from the Holocaust -- 4. Cinema begins to mirror the world -- Applause from the Muslims of Beirut -- Saladin's eyes -- My challenge for Steven Spielberg -- Da Vinci shit -- We've all been veiled from the truth -- When art is incapable of matching life -- A policeman's lot is not a happy one -- Take a beautiful woman to the cinema -- A river through time -- 5. The greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis -- A long and honourable tradition of smearing the dead -- Tricky stuff, evil -- 'Middle East hope!' - 'Europe in crisis!' -- A poet on the run in Fortress Europe -- 6. When I was a child ... I understood as a child -- Another of Arthur's damned farthings -- First mate Edward Fisk -- 'Come on, Sutton!' -- Cold war nights -- 'All this talk of special trains ...' -- Fear of flying -- 7. The old mandates -- God damn that democracy -- Gold-plated taps -- The man who will never apologise -- The 'lady' in seat 1K -- Whatever you do, don't mention the war -- 'The best defender on earth of Lebanon's sovereignty' -- Alphonse Bechir's spectacles -- The cat who ate missile wire for breakfast -- The torturer who lived near the theatre -- The temple of truth -- We are all Rifaats now -- The ministry of fear -- 'We have all made our wills' -- 'Duty unto death' and the United Nations -- 8. The cult of cruelty -- The age of the warrior -- Torture's out - abuse is in -- 'The truth, the truth!' -- Crusaders of the 'Green Zone' -- Paradise in Hell -- 'Bush is a revelatory at bedtime' -- The worse it gets, the bigger the lies -- Let's have more martyrs! -- The flying carpet -- The show must go on -- 'He was killed by the enemy' - but all is well in Iraq -- 9. We have lost our faith and they have not -- God and the devil -- The childishness of civilisations -- Look in the mirror -- Smashing history -- So now it's 'brown-skinned' -- The 'faith' question -- Hatred on a map -- 'If you bomb our cities, we will bomb yours' -- The lies of racists -- Dreamology -- 10. 'A thing invulnerable' -- What the Romans would have thought of Iraq -- In memoriam -- Read Lawrence of Arabia -- A peek into the Fascist era -- Who now cries for the dead of Waterloo? -- Witnesses to genocide: a dark tale from Switzerland -- 'You can tell a soldier to burn a village ...' -- Should journalists testify at war crimes trials? -- Where are the great men of today? -- 11. America, America -- Free speech -- It's a draw! -- Fear and loathing on an American campus -- How Muslim middle America made me feel safer -- Will the media boys and girls catch up? -- Brazil, America and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- From Cairo to Valdosta -- Trying to get into America -- 12. Unanswered questions -- Is the problem weather? Or is it war? -- Fear climate change, not our enemies -- Just who creates reality? -- A letter from Mrs Irvine -- Who killed Benazir? -- The strange case of Gunner Wills -- 13. The last enemy -- In the Colosseum, thoughts turn to death -- Dead heroes and living memories -- The ship that stands upright at the bottom of the Sea -- 'Thanks, Bruce' -- Those who went before us -- Farewell, Ane-Karine -- They told Andrea that Chris had not suffered -- The dilution of memory -- A street named Petain and the woman he sent to Auschwitz -- 'I am the girl of Irene Nemirovsky'.

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