Most Popular Books by Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens takes on his biggest subject yet--the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. With insight and wit, he describes the ways in which religion is man-made, immoral, and repressive and argues for a new enlightenment through science and reason. (World Religions)

Con la detención de Augusto Pinochet, y la intensa presión para proceder a la de Slobodan Milosevic, la posibilidad de una legislación internacional que actúe contra los tiranos en todo el mundo se perfila como una realidad. No obstante, como Christopher

De politieke gebeurtenissen op Cyprus vooral rond de Turkse militaire invasie in 1974

''Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.'' James Wolcott in his introduction Christopher Hitchens was a star writer wherever he wrote, and the same was true of the London Review of Books, to which he contributed sixty pieces over two decades. Anthologised here for the first time, this selection of his finest LRB reviews, diaries and essays (along with a smattering of ferocious letters) finds Hitchens at his very best. Familiar bêtes noires - Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton - rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations: P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret and, magisterially, Isaiah Berlin. Here is Hitchens on the (first) Gulf War and the ''Salman Rushdie Acid Test'', on being spanked by Mrs Thatcher in the House of Lords and taking his son to the Oscars, on America''s homegrown Nazis and ''Acts of Violence in Grosvenor Square'' in 1968. Edited by the London Review of Books, with an introduction by James Wolcott, this collection recaptures, ten years after his death, ''a Hitch in time'': barnstorming, cauterising, and ultimately uncontainable.

The present report attempts to anatomize the social and economic predicament of Africans in Zimbabwe, in the context of an exceptionally (and unnecessarily) painful and prolonged transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.

This edition features George Orwell''s best known novels – 1984 and Animal Farm – with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Animal Farm is Orwell''s classic satire of the Russian Revolution -- an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones''s Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

A Long Short War is the one essential book for anyone who wants to understand the greatest global crisis of the past decade, one that bitterly divided public opinion across the United States -- and the world. Watching events unfold in the U.S. and writing directly from Iraq, Christopher Hitchens reported on the current crisis while at the same time emphasizing the historical perspective -- that this war began when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, only a few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Cutting through the spin and slogans shaping popular thought, he tackles the essential questions. What was the true nature of Saddam''s regime? Was this really Bush''s war for oil? Will our military action spark more terrorist attacks? In this polemical, incendiary account, Hitchens offers hindsight on the rights and wrongs of an epochal war.

Bringing together 300 iconic portraits from "Vanity Fair''s" 95-year history in a remarkable book that captures the image of modern fame, authors Carter and Friend showcase the magic that happens when individual talent and beauty--and sometimes genius--is caught in the spotlight of popular curiosity and passion. Abrams

Traces the history of the Parthenon, explains how and why its sculptures and friezes were taken to Britain, and discusses the arguments for returning them

This is an account of the history of special relationship that is supposed to exist between America and Great Britain. The book starts its survey just prior to World War I and charts the rise of the friendship between the nations before going on to look at the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence. It then analyzes the recent friendship between Thatcher and Reagan which was tested in such episodes as the Falklands war, the invasion of Grenada and the bombing of Tripoli.

Drawing on firsthand testimony, previously unpublished documentation and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.

" La plupart des gens cherchent avant tout la sécurité et l''approbation générale. Il ne faut ni s''en étonner ni juger leurs ambitions intrinsèquement condamnables. Cela dit, on a toujours vu surgir des personnalités qui, d''une manière ou d''une autre, se sentaient à part. Je ne crois pas exagérer en déclarant que l''humanité leur doit énormément, qu''elle soit prête ou non à reconnaître sa dette. Ne t''attends surtout pas à des remerciements. Personne ne prétend qu''une vie d''opposant soit de tout repos. " Sur le modèle des célèbres Lettres à un jeune poète, de Rainer Maria Rilke, Christopher Hitchens nous adresse ces dix-huit Lettres à un jeune rebelle. Un récit épistolaire à l''attention des jeunes générations pour qui la dissidence doit redevenir une vertu, une philosophie optimiste de la vie. L''esprit de contradiction, seul, est capable de faire progresser la démocratie contre les idées reçues. Preuves à l''appui, l''auteur de ces lettres explore avec brio le registre de l''anticonformisme et en salue les maîtres tels que Freud, Zola, Vaclav Havel, Salman Rushdie... Un essai sur le fil du rasoir. Nul autre que Christopher Hitchens, avec l''impertinence qui l''a rendu célèbre, ne pouvait mieux lancer la polémique !