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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisk, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign correspondents.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

War correspondents.

Fisk, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nation Books, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The definitive collection of essays by best-selling author and internationally acclaimed foreign correspondent, Robert Fisk.

Contents:

CONTENTS; acknowledgements xi; preface xiii; 1 A firestorm coming 1; Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war 2; Flirting with the enemy 14; 'Thank you, Mr Clinton, for the kind words' 20; Brace yourself for Part Two of the War for Civilisation 25; The pit of desperation 29; The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war 34; 'You are not welcome' 38; Be very afraid: Bush Productions is preparing togo into action 42; 'Our guys may kick them around a little . . .' 46; The wind from the East 51; 2 Publish and be damned? Or stay silent? 55; So let me denounce genocide from the dock 56

You're talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador 60Armenia's 1,500,001st genocide victim 64; Sneaking a book out in silence 66; 'A conflict of interest' 70; Bravery, tears and broken dreams 74; A holocaust denier in the White House 78; 3 Words, words, words . . . 83; Hack blasts local rags 84; We should have listened to Bin Laden 96; The jargon disease 101; Poisonous academics and their claptrap of exclusion 105; Soft words - hard questions 109; The pen, the telex, the phone and the despised e-mail 113; The forgotten art of handwriting 117; 'Believe it or not!' 121; Murder is murder is murder . . . 125

Ah, Mary, you poor diddums 129'A very edgy situation' 133; 'Abu Henry': what diplomats can get up to 137; A lesson from the Holocaust 141; 4 Cinema begins to mirror the world 145; Applause from the Muslims of Beirut 147; Saladin's eyes 151; My challenge for Steven Spielberg 155; Da Vinci shit 159; We've all been veiled from the truth 163; When art is incapable of matching life 167; A policeman's lot is not a happy one 171; Take a beautiful woman to the cinema 175; A river through time 179; 5 The greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis 185

A long and honourable tradition of smearing the dead 186Tricky stuff, evil 191; 'Middle East hope!' - 'Europe in crisis!' 195; A poet on the run in Fortress Europe 199; 6 When I was a child . . . I understood as a child 203; Another of Arthur's damned farthings 204; First mate Edward Fisk 208; 'Come on, Sutton!' 212; Cold war nights 216; 'All this talk of special trains . . .' 220; Fear of flying 224; 7 The old mandates 227; God damn that democracy 228; Gold-plated taps 232; The man who will never apologise 236; The 'lady' in seat 1K 239; Whatever you do, don't mention the war 242

'The best defender on earth of Lebanon's sovereignty' 247Alphonse Bechir's spectacles 251; The cat who ate missile wire for breakfast 254; The torturer who lived near the theatre 257; The temple of truth 261; We are all Rifaats now 265; The ministry of fear 269; 'We have all made our wills' 273; 'Duty unto death' and the United Nations 276; 8 The cult of cruelty 281; The age of the warrior 282; Torture's out - abuse is in 286; The truth, the truth!' 290; Crusaders of the 'Green Zone' 294; Paradise in Hell 298; 'Bush is a revelatory at bedtime' 302; The worse it gets, the bigger the lies 306

Let's have more martyrs! 311

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-28555-X

9786613285553

0-7867-3180-X

OCLC:

471133378