The model for this volume is the enormously successful Vintage Original DISTANT VOICES (93, 000 copies sold to date). It will gather together essays on a range of subjects including Burma, Fleet Street, East Timor, Vietnam today, the media and UK politics. 'Pilger 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