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His parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, had recently returned to Ireland, to their house in East Cork, careless of the fact that a polio epidemic had broken out in Cork City.

A new, updated edition of the personal reflection on the occupation of Iraq, from the reporter for "The Independent". Deeply engaging with the political issues, it contains additional material, with the continuing deterioration of the situation in Iraq making it more relevant than ever. 'Required reading... a masterpiece of journalism.' A.N. Wilson, "The Evening Standard

This book offers a chilling view of just how terrible the price of the 1991 Gulf War has been for Iraqis. The authors show how Saddam has learned from that experience as well as analyse the consequences of a military invasion of Iraq.

Jihad-bewegingen hebben zich sinds het begin van de eenentwintigste eeuw vooral laten gelden door terroristische aanvallen, met als meest recente voorbeeld de aanslagen in Parijs van januari 2015. Patrick Cockburn toont in zijn nieuwe boek aan dat de Jihadi's tegenwoordig meer zijn dan een aantal losjes verbonden terroristische bewegingen, maar dat zij in het Midden-Oosten een snel groeiende territoriale macht vormen. Dat met deze beweging te...

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Now in paperback, the exceptionally well-reviewed, "intimate and authoritative...outstanding double memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) about schizophrenia written by an eminent journalist and his son. On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into an estuary outside Brighton, England and nearly drowned. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, jour...

Looks at why and how all other countries support wanes and why the US is once fighting the battle and left holding the bag in the poli-geo fraught area

The horrible acts of Isis intrigue millions across the world. Isis continues to be in the news and will continue to be so during the election.

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Time" magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq." Paul Bremer denounced him as a "Bolshevik Islamist" and ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." Who is Muqtada al-Sadr, and why is he so vital to the future of Iraq and, arguably, the entire Middle East?In this compellingly readable account, prize-winning journalist Pa...

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