Dropping Their Eggs
Patrick Wright: The history of bombing, 23 August 2001
A History of Bombing
by Sven Lindqvist, translated by Linda Haverty Rugg.
Granta, 233 pp., £14.99, May 2001,1 86207 415 1 Show More
by Sven Lindqvist, translated by Linda Haverty Rugg.
Granta, 233 pp., £14.99, May 2001,
The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive 1939-45
by Robin Niellands.
Murray, 448 pp., £25, February 2001,0 7195 5637 6 Show More
by Robin Niellands.
Murray, 448 pp., £25, February 2001,
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
by Frances FitzGerald.
Touchstone, 592 pp., $17, March 2001,0 7432 0023 3 Show More
by Frances FitzGerald.
Touchstone, 592 pp., $17, March 2001,
“... under international law. Yet they also read books (when I visited the US Army Armor Center in Fort Knox, the colonel in charge of training recommended Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers as ‘pinsharp’ on ‘the ethics and morality’ of the future soldiery) and step into plastic cabinets made by Jacuzzi to simulate ... ”