Letters Against The War

Now seems a good time as ever to re-read this great book by Italian journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani.

Letters Against The War was gifted to me in 2003 by a Swiss friend (thank you Benjamin Zumstein). It was already a bestseller in Europe but impossible to find in English (see preface below). The author paid of his own pocket for an English translation and gave it for free on the Internet.

After a lifetime of traveling the world and writing stories for Der Speigel and the Corriere della Sera, Terzani shares his thoughts on the state of our World and the absurdity of War.

The book was written in 2002 as a series of letters, some of the published in the Corriere della Sera, as the American were bombarding Afghanistan.

This is, I believe, an important read — especially now — wherever you are on the planet and regardless of your World views.

Here is an excerpt:

In all wars, truth dies first. — Tiziano Terzani