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Australian Books

Genocidal thoughts

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

Blood & Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars Sam Vincent

Black Inc, pp.272, $30, ISBN: 978186395682

An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians? Geoffrey Robertson

Random, pp.294, $35, ISBN: 9780857986337

It takes a certain type of courage for a writer to complete a book and then admit that he does not really know what the conflict it describes is about. But Vincent, a vaguely leftish journalist, is willing to do so, although he adds an important caveat: ‘It sure as hell isn’t about whales’.

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