War, Evil and the End of History: From L.A. to New York... to Jihad? - Softcover

""Bernard-Henri Levy is accorded the kind of adulation in France that most countries reserve for their rock stars."

Based upon original reporting and theorising about the world's 'forgotten war zones', this book features essays by novelist-philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, who is given the kind of adulation in France comparable to pop celebrities in other countries. Included are Levy's reflections on massacres in Burundi and Angola, female suicide bombers in Sri Lanka, and death and destruction in Algeria and Sudan. In the spirit of Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir, Levy analyses contemporary conflicts from a European perspective. First world/third world relations are shrewdly assessed in these clear-sighted and accessible pieces.