Also by Mark Bowden
Doctor Dealer
Bringing the Heat
Black Hawk Down
Killing Pablo
Finders Keepers
Road Work
Guests of the Ayatollah
The Best Game Ever
Worm
For Clara and Audrey
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone's right to be different, to be special, to think, to feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party, or a state are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.
-Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
The properties of a movement are spontaneity, impulsiveness, dynamic expansiveness-and a short life. The properties of a structure are inertia, resilience, and an amazing, almost instinctive, ability to survive.
-Ryszard Kapus′cin′ski, Shah of Shahs
