Available next week, although you can pre-order right this second if you want to:
It’s exactly what it sounds like — a brief, pocket-sized paperback guide to about 35 of the world’s major conflict zones, complete with original maps, illustrations, and photographs. Frankly, if you’ve ever wished for a book that allows you to look up who’s who in Sudan in one trip to the can, here it is.
Is it any good? I have no idea, honestly. There were a kajillion compromises in getting this thing down to pocket size.* But I worked pretty hard on it, and so far, WHW has picked up some kind praise from John Hodgman of The Daily Show, Ken Jennings from Jeopardy!, comedian Emo Philips, and — of all things — Men’s Health magazine, which chose it as a “Must Have” in their September issue. (Will reading Who Hates Whom therefore give you tighter abs? Possibly.)
If you’ve enjoyed my chunks on this blog, last year’s Prisoner of Trebekistan, or your occasional visits over to Puduland, you might dig it. I hope you will.
*It’s not up yet, but I’ll have WhoHatesWhom.com at least partially up sometime next week with extras, deleted stuff, source notes, errata, etc.
