My Life is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing.(Book review)

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MY LIFE IS A WEAPON: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing, Christoph Reuter, trans, by Helena Ragg-Kirkby, Princeton University Press, NJ, 2004, 179 pages, $16.98.

Christoph Reuter, an international correspondent for the German magazine Stern, spent 8 years moving among the society that in the 1980s produced suicide brigades for the Iran-Iraq War. Reuter interviewed entire communities, from Lebanon's Hizballah, to Palestinian militants, to Sri Lankan Tamils, while investigating the culture of martyrdom. Originally published in German as Mein Leben ist eine Waffe, My Life is a ...

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