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050 4 _aPN5130.I53
_bF58 2008
082 0 4 _a070.4333
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100 1 _aFisk, Robert,
_eauthor.
_91069993
245 1 4 _aThe age of the warrior :
_bselected essays /
_cRobert Fisk.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bNation Books,
_c[2008]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _axviii, 522 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _g1.
_tA firestorm coming --
_tCry havoc and let slip the dogs of war --
_tFlirting with the enemy --
_t'Thank you, Mr Clinton, for the kind words' --
_tBrace yourself for Part Two of the War for Civilisation --
_tThe pit of desperation --
_tThe lies leaders tell when they want to go to war --
_t'You are not welcome' --
_tBe very afraid: Bush Productions is preparing to go into action --
_t'Our guys may kick them around a little ...' --
_tThe wind from the East --
_g2.
_tPublish and be damned? Or stay silent? --
_tSo let me denounce genocide from the dock --
_tYou're talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador --
_tArmenia's 1,500,001st genocide victim --
_tSneaking a book out in silence --
_t'A conflict of interest' --
_tBravery, tears and broken dreams --
_tA holocaust denier in the White House --
_g3.
_tWords, words, words ... --
_tHack blasts local rags --
_tWe should have listened to Bin Laden --
_tThe jargon disease --
_tPoisonous academics and their claptrap of exclusion --
_tSoft words - hard questions --
_tThe pen, the telex, the phone and the despised e-mail --
_tThe forgotten art of handwriting --
_t'Believe it or not!' --
_tMurder is murder is murder ... --
_tAh, Mary, you poor diddums --
_t'A very edgy situation' --
_t'Abu Henry': what diplomats can get up to --
_tA lesson from the Holocaust --
_g4.
_tCinema begins to mirror the world --
_tApplause from the Muslims of Beirut --
_tSaladin's eyes --
_tMy challenge for Steven Spielberg --
_tDa Vinci shit --
_tWe've all been veiled from the truth --
_tWhen art is incapable of matching life --
_tA policeman's lot is not a happy one --
_tTake a beautiful woman to the cinema --
_tA river through time --
_g5.
_tThe greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis --
_tA long and honourable tradition of smearing the dead --
_tTricky stuff, evil --
_t'Middle East hope!' - 'Europe in crisis!' --
_tA poet on the run in Fortress Europe --
_g6.
_tWhen I was a child ... I understood as a child --
_tAnother of Arthur's damned farthings --
_tFirst mate Edward Fisk --
_t'Come on, Sutton!' --
_tCold war nights --
_t'All this talk of special trains ...' --
_tFear of flying --
_g7.
_tThe old mandates --
_tGod damn that democracy --
_tGold-plated taps --
_tThe man who will never apologise --
_tThe 'lady' in seat 1K --
_tWhatever you do, don't mention the war --
_t'The best defender on earth of Lebanon's sovereignty' --
_tAlphonse Bechir's spectacles --
_tThe cat who ate missile wire for breakfast --
_tThe torturer who lived near the theatre --
_tThe temple of truth --
_tWe are all Rifaats now --
_tThe ministry of fear --
_t'We have all made our wills' --
_t'Duty unto death' and the United Nations --
_g8.
_tThe cult of cruelty --
_tThe age of the warrior --
_tTorture's out - abuse is in --
_t'The truth, the truth!' --
_tCrusaders of the 'Green Zone' --
_tParadise in Hell --
_t'Bush is a revelatory at bedtime' --
_tThe worse it gets, the bigger the lies --
_tLet's have more martyrs! --
_tThe flying carpet --
_tThe show must go on --
_t'He was killed by the enemy' - but all is well in Iraq --
_g9.
_tWe have lost our faith and they have not --
_tGod and the devil --
_tThe childishness of civilisations --
_tLook in the mirror --
_tSmashing history --
_tSo now it's 'brown-skinned' --
_tThe 'faith' question --
_tHatred on a map --
_t'If you bomb our cities, we will bomb yours' --
_tThe lies of racists --
_tDreamology --
_g10.
_t'A thing invulnerable' --
_tWhat the Romans would have thought of Iraq --
_tIn memoriam --
_tRead Lawrence of Arabia --
_tA peek into the Fascist era --
_tWho now cries for the dead of Waterloo? --
_tWitnesses to genocide: a dark tale from Switzerland --
_t'You can tell a soldier to burn a village ...' --
_tShould journalists testify at war crimes trials? --
_tWhere are the great men of today? --
_g11.
_tAmerica, America --
_tFree speech --
_tIt's a draw! --
_tFear and loathing on an American campus --
_tHow Muslim middle America made me feel safer --
_tWill the media boys and girls catch up? --
_tBrazil, America and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom --
_tFrom Cairo to Valdosta --
_tTrying to get into America --
_g12.
_tUnanswered questions --
_tIs the problem weather? Or is it war? --
_tFear climate change, not our enemies --
_tJust who creates reality? --
_tA letter from Mrs Irvine --
_tWho killed Benazir? --
_tThe strange case of Gunner Wills --
_g13.
_tThe last enemy --
_tIn the Colosseum, thoughts turn to death --
_tDead heroes and living memories --
_tThe ship that stands upright at the bottom of the Sea --
_t'Thanks, Bruce' --
_tThose who went before us --
_tFarewell, Ane-Karine --
_tThey told Andrea that Chris had not suffered --
_tThe dilution of memory --
_tA street named Petain and the woman he sent to Auschwitz --
_t'I am the girl of Irene Nemirovsky'.
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