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Summary
John Pilger's classic work of literary journalism, now with a new introduction by the author.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Australia | p. 1 |
| Uttering unlawful oaths | p. 3 |
| A new Britannia | p. 27 |
| Visitor to Britain | p. 47 |
| Days of hope | p. 49 |
| Country folk | p. 60 |
| The miners | p. 63 |
| A little bit of humanity | p. 67 |
| Invisible people | p. 74 |
| Anne Frank with a telephone | p. 78 |
| Cashing in | p. 83 |
| Fighting back | p. 94 |
| America | p. 101 |
| Heroes: Chasing the dream, The boys of Beallsville, 'Suckers' | p. 103 |
| Saviours: Bobby, George, Johnnie and Tim, Jerry, The Rock | p. 120 |
| Un-Americans: For God and country, Pyramid Lake is dying, On the road | p. 156 |
| Vietnam | p. 171 |
| Dreamland | p. 173 |
| History as illusion | p. 178 |
| Hearts and minds | p. 191 |
| The last day | p. 203 |
| The price | p. 231 |
| The boat people | p. 244 |
| Follies | p. 254 |
| A noble cause | p. 266 |
| Revenge | p. 275 |
| Coming back | p. 278 |
| Africa | p. 289 |
| Skin deep | p. 291 |
| Smithers of the river | p. 301 |
| 'No story down there' | p. 311 |
| Joi Bangla! (Long live Bengal!) | p. 321 |
| Lakhs and crores | p. 323 |
| 'Watch out at the Oval!' | p. 330 |
| 'Thank you all so much for coming!' | p. 340 |
| Basket cases | p. 350 |
| Palestine | p. 361 |
| Exodus | p. 363 |
| Unspeakables | p. 370 |
| Diaspora | p. 375 |
| Going home | p. 379 |
| Cambodia | p. 383 |
| Year Zero | p. 385 |
| 'Is there no pity?' | p. 414 |
| Year One | p. 428 |
| Year Ten | p. 438 |
| At Their Risk | p. 461 |
| A Prague spring | p. 463 |
| Heroes of the Soviet Union | p. 473 |
| The Americas - Vietnam Again | p. 481 |
| The attack on El Salvador | p. 483 |
| 'Basta!' | p. 493 |
| Media Games | p. 507 |
| A question of balance | p. 509 |
| 'You write. We publish' | p. 543 |
| Return to Australia | p. 575 |
| Beyond the frontier | p. 577 |
| Notes | p. 601 |
| Index | p. 623 |
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