Claws of the crab: Georgia and Armenia in crisis (Picador)

A report from the front line in Georgia as civil war erupts throughout the former Soviet Union. Posing as a foreign correspondent, the author travels through the Caucasus, surveying the blockade of Azerbaijan, the turmoil in Armenia and the plight of civilized people desperate to halt the chaos. Claws of the Crab Contents 1 Advanced Denial 2 Civil War or Ice-Cream 3 Your Question is Wrong 4 Guns and Knives 5 Two Modiglianis 6 Bullets, Flowers and a Dead Dog 7 The Laws of the Table 8 Vienna in the Caucasus 9 We Have Everything 10 Normal Situation 11 My House is Your House 12 Bibles and Bread 13 Mozart-Strasse, Leninakan 14 French Love 15 Art without Patrons 16 Looking Truth in the Eyes 17 Great Train Journeys of the World 18 Human Rights Day 19 Offstage 20 Back from the Brink 21 Shake That Hand 22 Just Like Paris 23 The Road to Karabakh 24 The Pincers Tighten Index