Freedom Next Time

Informationen zum Autor 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 Frontières, 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. Klappentext John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In FREEDOM NEXT TIME he looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; in each the people, having shed blood and dreams, are still waiting. In Afghanistan, Iraq and South Africa there has been the promise of hope, and even an 'official' freedom, but the reality of these divided societies is that they are still waiting for real freedom. In Palestine, the cycle of violence continues with no resolution in sight. 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. Zusammenfassung a 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.

Product details

• Authors: John Pilger
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2007
• EAN: 9780552773324
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77332-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Black Swan Paperbacks; Black Swan Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; World, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Political science & theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History: specific events and topics, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050