The long history of a disturbingly modern death cult
According to Iain Overton’s intelligent and sobering survey of suicide bombing, it seems tailor-made for the 21st century
Current affairs: The Price of Paradise: How the Suicide Bomber Shaped the Modern Age, By Iain Overton, Quercus, €17.25
Ignaty Grinivetsky hated the Tsar of Russia so much that he was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. “Alexander II must die,” the 25-year-old revolutionary wrote in a letter to posterity on March 12, 1881. “I shall not see our victory, I shall not live one day, one hour in the bright season of ...