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Biographical note
Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively though Asia, Africa and Latin America. Since 1955 he has published 30 books of essays, aphorisms, autobiography, documentary prose, travel and reportage, 10 of which are available in English, including: Bench Press, Desert Divers, "Exterminate All the Brutes" and Terra Nullius, all available from Granta Books. Lindqvist lives in Sweden with his wife and children.I was powerfully affected by [this book], which feels, as we move into the era of drone warfare, compelling and morally urgent
- Hari Kunzru, Books of the Year, Guardian
Ingenious and timely ... deserves to be read by all who wish to understand militarism in its many guises
- John Pilger,
It is learned, yet concise; doom-laden, yet light. A sobering and important argument ... it is gripping stuff. Lindqvist has written an exceptionally good book
- Robert Winder, New Statesman
A passionate denunciation of genocide and of the brutality of European colonisation
The Times
He writes with infectious moral anger, and much humour, and intelligence
Guardian
Fascinating and shocking in equal measure
- Hari Kunzru, Guardian