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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 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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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, and his reporting of these events has always been distinguished by his compassion for the ordinary people caught up in them, and the intense desire to tell the truth.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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...lest we forget,
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This is an amazingly powerful and readable book. There's so much going wrong in our world that I felt driven to try somehow to untangle my thoughts. I read "Heroes" aged 45 as a retrospective and it felt like a rite of passage. I was just a teenager at the time of Vietnam and during many of the political upheavals he refers to. Like many people I just accepted as "the truth" what was in the UK media. I didn't look for layers or ulterior motives. Pilger writes fluently, passionately, cuts to the core and backs everything up with solid research. He does have a political agenda BUT even if you relate to just 1% of his work, there's enough there that we should all be deeply concerned about. His skill is that he tells without lecturing; he was and remains courageous enough [literally and figuratively] to go where most journalists either couldn't or wouldn't. That alone demands we read him. He doesn't prescribe any course of action but leaves us to formulate our own personal response. Even if you read it and tell two others to do the same, Pilger's heroes won't have suffered in vain.
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
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Powerful, truthful and right...thank God for John Pilger!,
By Mathew Hulbert (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heroes (Paperback)
I make no denial of it...I think John Pilger is one of the greatest journalists alive today.As 'Heroes' shows, Pilger is great not because he's an opinonated talking-head who's reached some exalted position. No, Pilger is great because he shines the light of truth in the darkest of situations...East Timor, Vietnam, Iraq, the worst parts of Australia and the dark side of Britian. Though he, of course, has opinions he only ever writes with the full weight of factual evidence behind him. This, rightly described as Pilger's Classic work, is deeply powerful and moving. With a very readable writing style Pilger gives voice to people who would normally have no voice in the big, multi-media conglomerates who dominate the big, supposedly democratic nations. He represents and gives voice to the poor, the oppresed, the neglected, the forgotten. 'Heroes' along with his other books and films puts the, often unpalatable, truth to a mass audience who can then judge the facts and make up their own minds about how (peacefully and democraticaly) they want to respond. As a freelance journalist myself I always try to never forget that behind big events such as the war in Iraq or the catastrophe in Sudan lie individual stories of pain and also of bravery. Of ordinary people trying just to get by and do the best they can in often the harshest and most desperate of cicumstances. Everyone who cares about this world and what the powerful (often right-wing) vested interests are doing to it, must read this book. Perhaps then a true global peace and justice movement will come into being and then, maybe, this world will be a fairer and more decent place.
53 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
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You won't be able to put this down,
By philip.caulder@btinternet.com (Hemel Hempstead, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heroes (Paperback)
I have only just finished reading this, and like Hidden Agendas and Distant Voices, this is well written and quite superb. If you want to know the truth about middle america, the Vietnam war, the Miners in Northern England and a myriad of other topics, written by a man who was there and in the know, then this is for you. John Pilger is a journalist of much integrity and compassion. Read this and you may well weep - if you don't you have no heart. BUY IT - and look at your lucky life a little differently.
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