Philippe Gigantes’ last story [Power and Greed: a Short History of the World]

When then-foreign correspondent for the London Observer Philippe Gigantes was wounded, then captured for the 33 months and tortured in the Korean War, his captors would tie him naked to a chair for days and question him about being a spy. He was not a spy. He once sat in the chair for 17 days and...

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