I am actually an iranian girl, and when i was 10 years old, i found this book in our personal library. Soon after i started reading it, I fell in love with the book and it's author. the book was written in farsi, therefore it took me years to actually find the translated version of it! This book tells the story of a heroic italian journalist who went to the Viet War, and wrote the truth about what she saw going on around her. It is really refreshing to read a book about the Viet War from an non-participating party! i highly recomend this book to all who like to know both sides of the story, and what really goes on in WAR. This book makes you hate the whole concept of WAR!!!!

I found absolutely fascinating to read this new perspective on the Vietnam War and on the role that the USA play's on the history of the world. Even though I think it has some strong criticism it is backed up with experience.

But aside from this political side of the book I found unbelivably beautifull the fact that a person can be willing to go to the very core of madness and brutality (which is how I consider war), to face death, may be even her own, looking for the meaning and purpose of LIFE. This book thought me a lot about human nature, hope, love, and the immense responsability that comes with being alive. Thanks Oriana...

I stumbled across this book in my public library years ago. I have been searching for my own copy ever since. It is great reading of another perspective on the Vietnam War and also Mexican politics (I can attest to her accuracy on Mexico, I lived there). I have admired all of her books, but this was the first I read. I wish there had been women like her around when I was growing up!

It makes me thinking of women's future...in the other word humanity's future....like her other books....Specially in the middle-east.... I started to read her books very early, when i was 13 and now I'm 29...She always help me feel that I'm not lonely in this world. Ifeel a common sense.

This woman is not afraid to tell it like it is! She takes no prisoners and tells the whole truth!

I read this book years ago and have never forgotten it.

It's about a professional woman with an unexpected and difficult pregnancy. Her conversations with her unborn child are touching.

I don't want to spoil it for you so I'll leave it at that.

I enjoyed it thoroughly, and am disappointed to see that it's out of print.

I read this book many times and I still look forward to reading it again, it is one of the most beautiful books I can remember.

Oriana wrote a wondeful story about A. Panagulis in Geece. This man tried to destroy Greece President using in the beginning guns and then only with his life, words and example. Oriana follows in love to him and staid with until he died killed by Greece Goverment men. Great!

Having been recommended this book by a friend some time ago I have recently read it. I now wish I had read it long ago. The book is not just of interest to those who are interested in Greece, or Greek politics, but to all of us who are interested in life, and love and hatred. A summary of the book would not do it justice, it is about a Man, his life, his passions, his crimes and his cruel punishment,but more importantly about the woman who fell in love with him and wrote this book for all to read. This book simply has to be read, no book collection should be without its own copy.

did the author write fact or fiction? Written from the perspectiove of personal experience one is left wondering ... did Oriana Fallaci *actually* know a person on whose life the novel is based? The story is about Alekos, a Greek patriot and political prisoner. It is written after the military rule in Greece (which occured in the mid-1970s). This is a gripping, powerful novel about a man who has solid convictions and beliefs. It shows you the strength and vulnerablilites of *one* individual who is caught in the midst of political changes, a man who remained true to his cause. He fought and loved on his terms. The literary technique, of a memoir is highly effective, the emotions and events depicted are *even* more penetrating and mysterious ... this is one novel I could not put down. Although first read in the mid-1980s it still has me spell-bound. I have recently reread it and the effect is still the same!
Erika B.

history is tradionally a slave to the powerful conquerers;it createsa perception of reality with a juandiced view.Oraina blends the present from the vantage point of hindsight looking deep into future.The CONTEPOROIES ARE PORTRAYED MAGNIficiently revealing thier weak innerselves.

Fallaci's weaknesses are also her strengths. She's so passionate a journalist, you get a rush off her energy. But her passion also clouds her objectivity, so she seems often fanatical in her opinions and attitudes. If you want to experience the equivalent of reading an arm-waving passionate Italian, this is a worthy book.

Perhaps it is silly in 1999 to write comments on a book from the mid-1970s. But people still comment on the Holy Bible and the Koran, don't they? And those two books are much older than "Interview With History." Right up front, Oriana Fallaci's Introduction states her position. [Only extreme propagandists claim to be completely objective]. Like her mother, Oriana has an intense dislike of political power; especially that practiced by tyrants. A World War II anti-Fascist Italian resistance fighter, Fallaci has the credentials to discuss political power and the politically powerful. Accordingly, her first interview presented in "Interview With History" is with Henry Kissenger. The man produces palpible revulsion in Fallaci but she heroically advances in her quest to extract candor from "Henry." Commenting in an aside on his Nobel Peace Prize, Fallaci simply writes, "Poor Nobel. Poor peace." Indeed, this courageous woman nearly brought down this powerful man when she gave the world a peek into his character by publishing her warts-and-all interview examining Kissenger's stomach turning hubris; this while Kissenger was at the height of his international influence and power over President Richard M. Nixon. When warranted, Fallaci can equally record kindly images such as in her interviews of King Hussein of Jordan or Golda Meir of Israel. However, in "Interview With History" the primary objective is the naked truth about her interviewees. Those wishing to peer deeply into the minds of the world's leading heroes and villains, and indeed who can enjoy such "nudity" should read this excellent and timeless book.

This unauthorized biography provided a rare view into the unusual life and career of one of the finest journalists of the 20th century. Oriana Fallaci has jealously guarded her own privacy, while making a career out of revealing often unflattering views of the movers and shakers of the 20th century. Oriana Fallaci's take her influence from her anti-fascist, intellectually idealistic upbringing. She worked tirelessly to break out of the limited existence most often reserved to a woman of her era. Her great political interviews and masterpieces like "A Letter to a Child Never Born" and "Inshallah" attest to her incisive, unconventional insight. I always wished to know more about her and now have had the opportunity.

Santo Arico is to be congratulated for finally shedding light on the incredible life journey of the most influential female journalist of our time.

Oriana Fallaci is tired of this debate. She's wants one thing: victory over the Islamists by any means necessary. There comes a time when arguing with evil in its purest form does nothing more than legitimize this evil. If a society cannot stand up and call this evil out, to its face (and yes, evil has a face in this case), then that society is either: 1) as good as dead , or 2) a friend to that evil.

In "The Rage and the Pride," Oriana Fallaci uses her eyewitness account of the 9/11 attacks on lower Manhattan, New York City, to launch into a rant against radical Islam and its proponents' repeatedly stated intentions to conquer the world. Ms. Fallaci takes on the European Muslim leaders and their total condonation or, at best, acquiescence to the vitriolic, hate-filled rhetoric coming from some of the leading mosques and Islamic scholars in Europe and around the world. She directly attacks Yasser Arafat for the terrorism he wages against not only the civilized world but against his own people, while running up a personal net worth of an estimated $300 million. Ms. Fallaci, a lifelong Leftist and true "libertarian" is a great example of how the International Left should have reacted to 9/11 and the rise of Radical Islam. Instead, much of the Left, with the cowardice that Fallaci rips them for in this book, can only mount tepid condemnation of democratic, Western leaders that pose no threat to them, while excusing and turning a blind eye to those that seek to kill us all, no questions asked.

The Rage and the Pride is not well-composed and not well thought out. But it is a better read just for those reasons. It is an emotional roller coaster of anger and passion that laughs at the thought of continued diplomacy and debate with the Islamists and their dictatorial protectors in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and so on. Anyone who values enlightened, democratic, freedom will love this book and have a profound respect for Ms. Fallaci's rage. Anyone who does not is simply not with us. They're with them. Period. And Oriana Fallaci knows how true this is.

I've just finished The Rage and The Pride, and, while I can't call it a very readable book, it is a book worth reading. I agree completely with Fallaci's assertions that "the West" is under a reverse assault from Islam and Islamic fundamentalists who seek to destroy important values like tolerance, personal freedom, critical introspective inquiry, and simply enjoying life with a glass of wine while holding hands (in public!) with the woman you love.

There is a profound and foolishly dangerous double standard at work here. One where killers cloaked under the guise of a false religion can fly aircraft in to tall buildings, yet where are the condemnations of the imams? Where is the outrage in the mosques against these immoral actions? Criticism of Islam is too quickly labeled bigotry and racism, yet those very public statements from Islamic religious leaders urging people to kill Americans everywhere are supposed to be accepted without qualm, without an outcry? I think not. We cannot be tolerant of intolerance.

The magnitude of the reverse assault on "the West" is surely overblown here, but the trenchant criticism of the hypocrisy of it all makes this an important book.

Upon request to edit my ratings (3 for USA, 5 for European readers) I want
to add something to the book information to join the Americans remarks for
the customers to be, this time from a Dutchman:

Because the book is an European book, disclosing facts that everybody knows
and feels but only never have been reviewed till Oriana Fallaci opened her heart
and said (in her own translation) her original Italian view on the 11/9 tragic
events. And as one can expect from her earlier books she is a clever observer,
persistent in expressing her own meaning, always with quite some self-pride and
satisfaction, one cannot deny. And also here : under her dedication to the USA creeps the Italian nature up, ragged and raging in her demands for the future existence of western culture, freedom of thoughts and living and intellects, some of which are of American merits, void of any culture due to its short history.

As always she presents herself as a warrior ready to fight, be it not with
words, then in person as her adventurous life has taught her from childhood, even if one dares to destroy her beloved Florence she threatens in person. This fact about her, makes her perhaps the best and most honest journalist of our days. Her days are running out soon, so let us value the contents of this book to her pride!

All her aims, rage and attacks are directed mainly to Europe, the Europeans, primarily Italy and its quasi-union of distracted countries, which
badly need guidance to form an uniform attitude against the Islamic roller to be
expected, according to Fallaci, which has not been taken seriously enough with the dream that USA power will return the revival just as after WWII.

It can be read daily in European newspapers how contrarily to her warnings
the trend of anti-Americanism grows from day to day, not so much in eastern countries,
where it exists already longer, but in Western Europe, which is fed up with wars
without end, and with each of them in an economic crisis.

So a book for Europeans.....for sure !