Summary
The bestselling book from one of the finest investigative journalists of our time.The heroes of John Pilger’s narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions- dissidents in the Soviet Union; victims of conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa, India, the Middle East and Central America. They also include the Irish labouring generation of his great-great-grandfather, transported in irons to Australia for uttering ‘unlawful …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099266112 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099266113 |
| Author: | John Pilger |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2001 |
| Weight: | 458g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 29mm |
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“John Pilger is the antidote to easy, comfortable thinking, to smugness, to ignorance. He is necessary” Daily Telegraph “Pilger has a gift for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all. He is a photographer using words instead of a camera” – Salman Rushdie “Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s. The truth in his hands is a weapon, to be picked up and used in the struggle against injustice” Guardian
About The Author
John Pilger
John Pilger grew up in Sydney, Australia. He was a war correspondent, author and film-maker. He twice won British journalism’s highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, for his work all over the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He was also voted International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations Associated Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he won France’s Reporter Sans Fronti res, an American television Academy Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2003, he received the Sophie Prize for ‘thirty years of exposing deception and improving human rights’. He died in December 2023.
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