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Revealing the truth behind many facets of contemporary politics, John Pilger's powerful book exposes the dangers and deceptions of power.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Pilger is the closest we have to the greatest correspondents of the 1930s... The truth in his hands is a weapon, to be picked up and brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice" Guardian "Pilger's strength is his gift for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all - he is a photographer using words instead of a camera" Salmon Rushdie "A modern interpretation of world affairs in a cynical age" Independent

"Pilger is the closest we have to the greatest correspondents of the 1930s... The truth in his hands is a weapon, to be picked up and brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice" Guardian "Pilger's strength is his gift for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all - he is a photographer using words instead of a camera" Salmon Rushdie "A modern interpretation of world affairs in a cynical age" Independent