TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fisk,Robert
TI  - The age of the warrior: selected essays 
SN  - 1568584032
AV  - PN5130.I53 F58 2008
U1  - 070.4333 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Nation Books
KW  - Fisk, Robert.
KW  - Foreign correspondents
KW  - World politics
KW  - 21st century
KW  - War correspondents
N1  - 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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