Heroes

John Pilger

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English

Vintage
02 March 2001

Biography: business & industry; Literary essays; Reportage & collected journalism; History; Social & cultural history; Political activism; Press & journalism

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 oaths'.

It is a vivid, engrossing and sometimes blackly amusing personal story covering the periods for which his journalism is renowned. John Pilger has witnessed many of the major world upheavals of the past thirty years, as well as the daily realities of injustices normally hidden from society's view. His reporting of these events has always been distinguished by his tenaciously researched facts - especially facts that governments and powerful interests would prefer to keep secret - and by his unerring and always compassionate pursuit of the truth.

By: John Pilger
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 458g
ISBN: 9780099266112
ISBN 10: 0099266113
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 02 March 2001
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Pilger grew up in Sydney, Australia. He has been a war correspondent, author and film-maker. He has twice won British journalism's highest award, that of Journalist of the Year, for his work all over the world, notably in Vietnam and Cambodia. Among a number of other awards, he has been International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations Association Media Peace Prize. For his broadcasting, he has won France's Reporter Sans Frontieres, an American television Academy Award, and Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He lives in London.

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John Pilger is the antidote to easy, comfortable thinking, to smugness, to ignorance. He is necessary. -- Daily Telegraph <br><br> 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

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