The world of Robert Fisk

Few would dispute that Robert Fisk is the world's most famous foreign correspondent. For more than four decades he has been reporting from the planet's trouble-spots with the confident authority of a man who writes only what he has seen with his own eyes.

Wherever and whenever the darker chapters of modern history are being written – in Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Northern Ireland, former Yugoslavia – Fisk is rarely far from the thick of things, seeking out the truth with a commend...