The Age of the Warrior - Selected Writings

Fourth Estate, London, 2008. Minor signs of secondhand wear.

Fisk has reported from the Middle East for over 30 years - during that time he has covered 11 major wars, countless insurgencies and massacres. In this authoritative collection of his journalism he mounts a resistance to those who talk uncritically of the `war oin terror,' who refer to torture as `abuse', and to dictators as `strongmen' - provided they're on our side. But alongside this provocative subject matter appear more personal stories - a trip to the grave of the Titanic passengers, considerations of cinema and fiction, and accounts of the lives of Fisk's family: his father who served in WW1 and his grandfather, a first mate on the Cutty Sark.