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Book Synopsisa base from which they are able to launch attacks against the Middle East.
Once again John Pilger gives a voice to the people living through these momentous times and, in gripping detail, shows us the lives behind the headlines.
Trade ReviewPilger 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 brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice * Guardian *
John Pilger is the antidote to easy, comfortable thinking, to smugness, to ignorance * Daily Telegraph *
Pilger's gift is for finding the image, the instant, that reveals all - he is a photographer using words instead of a camera -- Salman Rushdie
John Pilger unearths, with steely attention to facts, the filthy truth and tells it as it is. I salute him -- Harold Pinter
The array of interviews with the voiceless and abused provides an indispensable corrective to the litany of disinformation we are fed by the media, and for this achievement Pilger is surely the most outstanding journalist in the world today * Guardian *
