Nothing but the Truth: Selected Dispatches

Nothing but the Truth: Selected Dispatches

by Anna Politkovskaya (Author), Dr Arch Tait (Translator)

Synopsis

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary. Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, winning international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian politics and state corruption. Nothing But the Truth is a definitive collection of Anna Politkovskaya's best writings: a lasting and inspiring book from one fo the greatest reporters of our age.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Jan 2011

ISBN 10: 0099526689
ISBN 13: 9780099526681
Book Overview: A wide-ranging and lasting collection of writing by one of the most outstanding and courageous reporters of our era.

Media Reviews
It's a great, if at times, stomach-churning, read by a journalist who told it like it was and paid the price -- Tina Faulk * Spectator *
Terrifying... Intense... Breathtaking * Jon Snow *
An impressive testimony to the most courageous form of journalism- dedicated to unearthing inconvenient facts and making uncomfortable arguments * Financial Times *
We will continue to read her and learn from her for years -- Salman Rushdie
Anna Politkovskaya refused to lie, in her work; her murder is a ghastly act, and an attack on world literature -- Nadine Gordimer
Author Bio
Known to many as 'Russia's lost moral conscience', Anna Politkovskaya was a special correspondent for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta and the recipient of many honours for her writing. She is the author of A Dirty War, Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary. Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow in October 2006.