Updated 18/06/09 (it's coincidence I finished this book exactly one year ago - currently rereading the chapters on Israel-Palestine)Sorrow. Indignation. Dismay. Abhorrence. Horror. Disgust. Wrath. All the things that haunt you through the nights. If there’s one history book that totally changes t...
and the Fast Train to Paradise What candles may be held to speed them all?Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyesShall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.—Wilfred Owen, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”IN THE HUSH OF THE CURTAINED front room, the two former Iraqi pilots and the man who had been sec...