War Evil and the End of History Author:Bernard Henri Levy, Charlotte Mandell Based upon original reporting and theorizing about the world's "forgotten war zones," this book features essays by novelist-philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, 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 ... more »in Sri Lanka, and death and destruction in Algeria and Sudan. In the spirit of Émile Zola, Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir, Lévy analyzes contemporary conflicts from a European perspective. First world-third world relations are shrewdly assessed in these clear-sighted and accessible pieces.« less