Dropping Their Eggs
Patrick Wright: The history of bombing, 23 August 2001
A History of Bombing
by Sven Lindqvist, translated by Linda HavertyRugg.
Granta, 233 pp., £14.99, May 2001,1 86207 415 1 Show More
by Sven Lindqvist, translated by Linda HavertyRugg.
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,
“... I cannot recall taking a single piss during my childhood, whether outside or at home in the outhouse, when I didn’t choose a target and bomb it. At five years of age I was already a seasoned bombardier.’ This is an unusual way of embarking on an analysis of modern warfare and its technologies, but then Sven Lindqvist has long been writing history in his own way ... ”
