Fisk rightly sought to capture in text what the artist must endeavour to capture in image. Human suffering. The oppressed, war-battered, and dispossessed, were the people that the author could neither ignore nor neglect. Fisk would travel to their city, town, or village, just to hear from them. He wanted, perhaps needed, to hear their view on their own unique experience. But Fisk also desired that the world hear these stories of resistance and resilience, and sometimes tragedy. Much of this can be found in his regular column with The Independent. Fisk gave to us in the West a portal through which we could empathise with and come to understand our Muslim brothers and sisters. Concurrently, Fisk embodied the Westerner who is not arrogant and dismissive of the culture and history of the other. But rather, one who has come to understand that the world consists of multiple civilisations. And that more than one of those civilisations is great. Includes the Afghan War. The Iran-Iraq War. The First Gulf War. The Armenian genocide. The Israeli war on Palestine. The Nakba. The Second Gulf War. Interviews with Osama bin Laden as well as with a young Timothy McVeigh serving in Iraq. Non-fiction. 1392 pages.