With Yvonne.
The Commander.
Yvonne.
King and Country. The Commander (far right) welcomes the future King George to the HMS Ajax. The woman in the picture was to become the last Empress of India.
Without any previous qualifications, I became a member of the Church of England. Malta, 1949.
Another Hitchens against Hitler: Yvonne joins the Royal Navy.
Nathan Blumenthal, my great-great-grandfather.
Sarah Blumenthal.
Nathan and Sarah.
Great-Uncle Harry, posed as “Young England,” 1900.
School general election, 1964. Michael Prest stands guard, while my Communist opponent Bevis Sale dominates the foreground.
Rabble-rousing at Oxford.
Blockading a racist hairdresser, 1968. I am at the back, on the right-hand side. Arrest to follow.
My first television appearance. Balliol’s reputation as the college for “effortless superiority” took a long time to recover from this defeat.
With friend and tutor.
Card carrying.
In Cuba, at a work camp for young revolutionaries, 1968.
Pursuing my studies at Oxford, 1968. (© Billett Potter, Oxford)
On the picket line at a non-union factory.
In Babylon, Iraq, 1975.
In Iraq with a Ba’athist banner, 1975.
Striking an attitude in Kurdistan with Saddam’s enemies during the first Gulf War.
With Jalal Talabani at his mountain HQ in 1991: then the leader of a murdered and dispossessed people, and now the first-ever elected president of Iraq.
Liberating Iraq.
In Iraq with Paul Wolfowitz, 2003.
Swallowing vomit while greeting General Videla of Argentina in Juan Peron’s old palace, 1977.
In Zimbabwe, 1977.
With the only priest I’ve ever liked, Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus.
In the Sahara with Polisario guerrillas around a captured Moroccan tank, 1977.
With an extremely moderate Muslim in Malaysia.
With Sayeed Khomeini, courageous foe of his grandfather’s theocracy, in Qum, Iran, in 2006.
With Ugandan soldiers pursuing the Lord’s Resistance Army, 2007.
Getting to know the General: in Venezuela with Sean Penn, Douglas Brinkley, and the dictator, October 2008.
The Romanian Revolution, 1989.
In Nicaragua with Vice-President Sergio Ramirez, a Sandinista and novelist.
In Paris with James Fenton and Martin Amis, 1979. (Angela Gorgas, © Angela Gorgas)
With Angela Gorgas, shot by Martin, Paris, 1979. (Martin Amis and Angela Gorgas, © Angela Gorgas)
With James Fenton and “The Skip.”
With Martin at the Soames house in Hampshire, taking a break from croquet, 1977.
Reviewing the situation with Martin in Cape Cod, 1985.
Passing on our genes: with Louis Amis and Alexander Hitchens, Cape Cod, 1985.
In Cyprus with Alexander.
Shoulder to shoulder with Salman during his time in hiding: (standing) Andrew Wylie, SR, David Rieff, Your Humble Servant, Ian McEwan, Elizabeth West; (foreground) Erica Wylie, Carol Blue, and Martin Amis. (© Elizabeth West)
On the beach with Salman, at an undisclosed location (somewhere near West Egg, c. 1992). (© Elizabeth West)
With Ian and Martin in Uruguay near Charles Darwin’s landfall. This is where I started writing god Is Not Great.
Famous at last: the New Yorker knows who I am. (© David Sipress/CondéNast Publications/www.cartoonbank.com)
Advising George Bush to leave Nicaragua alone and stop trading arms for hostages in Iran, at Christopher Buckley’s wedding in 1984. Lucy Buckley and Camilla Horne appear to be enthusing with this advice-not-taken.
With Nelson Mandela at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.
On Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Harrison Salisbury, and Robert Conquest.
Taking the oath of citizenship from Michael Chertoff on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, 2007. I am holding a copy of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom.
With Susan Sontag, Victor Navasky, and Carol. (Annie Leibovitz)
With the First Lady at Sidney Blumenthal’s birthday in 1994. This was before he disgraced my other family name, and well before he became Mrs. Clinton’s muck-spreader against Barack Obama in the 2008 election.
Speaking up for the intifadah with Edward Said at Columbia University.
Making a documentary in Scotland.
At last, a party of positive non-belief to which I can be fully committed. With Professors Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins and Dr. Sam Harris, at the inaugural meeting of the “Four Horsemen” faction at my home in Washington. I look and feel flattered by the implied parity. (Photo by Josh Timonen)
Christopher Hitchens, Long Live Hitch
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