Book review - The Price of Paradise: How the Suicide Bomber Shaped the Modern Age

The Japanese kamikaze pilots of World War 2 crashed into targets, but the modern use of suicide-bombing began when a boy of 13 sacrificed himself during the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, says Frank MacGabhann.

THIS book reminded me of the chilling video of the young backpacker who patted the small child on the head, before entering a Catholic Church in Sri Lanka last Easter Sunday to blow it and himself up. However, the story of the suicide bomber does not begin in Sri Lanka, or in the Middle East, or in Afghanistan, but in the farthest reaches of Europe, in the Russia of the czars.