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“... as a uniform group of reactionaries fighting to reverse a ‘progressive’ regime. However, as Christopher Dickey explains in his admirable book, With the Contras, the core groups of the anti-Sandinista movement are made up of small land-holders consisting of oppressed Miskiti Indians and former Sandinista supporters (including Marxists) who believe ...”

“... have started this book if I had known where it was going to end,’ she writes in the preface. Christopher Dickey wrote a memoir of the poet and novelist James Dickey, his father, in which he says the old man ‘killed my mother’. He also reports his father saying of the son: ‘I made his head.’ We might say of ...”

“... their stories. Empathy here is in no short supply (‘she tries to understand, even to feel,’ as Christopher Dickey puts it in his foreword). For many in the West, the female suicide bomber is the most inhuman, since she violates women’s perceived role in life. Victor’s aim is to redeem her: ‘This book tells the story of the women who died for ...”