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Lot “epic of the west” with the following boxes: revell native americans, revell cowboys, revell confederate infantry on sprue, imex mexican infantry alamo on sprue, esci union infantryare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikimaterial: plasticplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableboxes in very good condition
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Pair of small framed pictures featuring warwick castle and the west gate with the lord liecester hospitalthese are water colour prints mounted in glass framessize 22mm x 17 mm eachby kenneth a bromley from the bromley collection
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Created for a play in the west yorkshire playhouse theatre for a character called rose, this beautiful dress is in a deep moss green, with soft and fluffy fabric in a floral pattern over blackkey features:round neckshort sleeveskeyhole back with button closuresoft upper green fabric in floral patternfloral ruched belt with hook closurecondition: very goodlabel reads chest 48"measurements:chest 48"waist 48"length 55" see oxfam website for delivery information read moreyou could even swap the belt if you desire for a black, gold, or silver one depending on your personal styleit is a gorgeous dress, and would look amazing for a special occasion with black shoes and accessories
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For the west surrey racing teamthe bmw 125i serie 1 #7 in btcc, driven by sam tordoffpremieres this scalextric uk´s car bmw 125i serie 1 #7ninco, superslot, scalextric, scx, carrera
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Oxfam shop worthing twenty multi coloured badges of cornwall and the west country, mainly circular but five larger onessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Kingdom of west saxon wessex flagflag is printed on one side, but visible on both sides of flag
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Admiralty leisure chart sc harbours & anchorages in the west solent area from keyhaven & isle of wightunused & excellent conditionincludes skippers checklist & life saving signals
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham shortlisted for the baileys women's prize for fiction shortlisted for the costa novel awardlonglisted for the man booker prizewinner of the irish novel of the year hanna, dan, constance and emmet return to the west coast of ireland for a final family christmas in the home their mother is about to sell**one of the guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century** see oxfam website for delivery information read moreas the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home
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"" the west gradually began to take noticepart of a generation who were admonished as children to ""remember the starving armenians,"" peterson went to armenia in as a peace corps volunteer and became fascinated by the country's troubled historyas the new york times carried stories about the ""slow massacre of a race,"" public outrage over this tragedy led to an unprecedented philanthropic crusade spearheaded by near east relief, an organization rooted in protestant missionary endeavors in the near east and dedicated to saving the survivors of the first genocide of the twentieth centuryfirst edition see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford the persecution and suffering of the armenian people, a religious and cultural minority in the ottoman empire, reached a peak in the era of world war i at the hands of the turksin ""starving armenians,"" merrill peterson explores the american response to these atrocities, beginning with the initial reports to president wilson from his ambassador to the ottoman empire, henry morgenthau, who described turkey as ""a place of horrorbetween and as many as 15 million armenian men, women, and children died in ottoman turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the syrian desertthe extensive research he embarked upon afterwards revealed not only the scope of the people's hardship and amazing resilience; it located in the american effort to help the armenians a unique perspective on our own nation's experience of the twentieth centurythe book also addresses the armenian aspirations for an independent republic under american auspices; these hopes went unfulfilled in the peacemaking after the war and ended altogether when armenia was absorbed into the soviet union""starving armenians"" is an eloquent narrative of an all but forgotten part of that experience
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Oxfam bookshop hexham the callander & oban railway company was formed in with the objective of linking callander, scotland to the west coast port of oban over challenging terrain, particularly at glen ogle and the pass of brander at loch awethe text block appears to be clean and unmarkedcallander had been reached in by the dunblane, doune and callander railway (soon to be absorbed into scottish central railways and then caledonian railway)this hardcover first edition was published by david & charles, newton abbot, devon, englandthis volume contains 200 pages of black and white photos and a colour frontispieceits overall condition is reasonable, although the dustjacket is priceclipped, rubbed, grubby and creasedin , the railway became part of lmsthe spine is also sunnedthe brown cloth boards are gilt stamped on the spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read morefollowing completion in , oban developed as a fashionable resort, though economically the railway was never really profitablethe corners and the top and foot of the spine are bumpedstarting in , the single track line passed killin in , reaching tyndrum in and dalmally in
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Margaret leigh was already a successful author when her longing for freedom and independence led to her decision to become a crofter in the west highlandsalthough far from the blitz, the effects of the war are felt throughout the highlands, and the rationing of food and vital materials, the battles with bureaucrats who had no understanding of a crofter’s needs, and even the appearance of a nazi mine off the coast, all frustrate margaret leigh’s effortsoxfam bookshop hexham one of very few books available about moidart in the north-west of scotland, it evokes the enchanted, magical beauty of this much-loved area of the countrythis is the very rare first edition, illustrated with nine colour drawings by myfanwy robertsthese memoirs describe her attempts to transform a deserted croft into a home, and her struggles to snatchland back from the wildernesssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut despite the hardships, the land and the people of the highlands gave her a contentment and happiness she had never known before
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In this series, bartlet (martin sheen) begins his re-election campaign, while cj (allison janney) is outraged at american support for the middle eastern country of qumarepisodes include: 'manchester (parts 1 and 2)','ways and means', 'on the day before', 'war crimes', 'gone quiet', 'the indians in the lobby', 'the women of qumar', 'bartlet for america', 'hthe discs are in perfect conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe case is worn out and a bit ripped on one sidethe case also includes an episode guide booklet insideoxfam shop shirley the complete third series of the acclaimed political dramacon- airplanes', 'the two bartlets', 'night five', 'hartsfield's landing', 'dead irish writers', 'the us poet laureate', 'stirred', 'enemies, foreign and domestic', 'the black vera wang', 'we killed yamamoto' and 'posse comitatus'
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The first time the culture of x-ray records and bone music was written about in the west was in the book’back in the ussr:the true story of russian rock’are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe author of that book was veteran russian broadcaster,cultural commentator and journalist artemyi troitskythis is the unique/pink floyd/"the gnome"x ray/spine **original packaging from included** i see that two times when i visited the exhibition with my father who,like myself,was thrilled by this peculiar wonderful type of anti-suppression after an exhibition in/the horse hospital,london:/07incredibly,they built their own recording devices and used an exceptional means to copy prohibited jazz,rockfeb16(see picture ) pure collectible recording audible but of course not so good!) unique item on catawiki from the pink floyd debut albumpink floyd/"the gnome" x-ray audio lost culture of bone music -in the ussr during the cold war,the music that people could hear was ruthlessly controlled by the statebut a secret underground subculture of music lovers and pirates opposed the censorshipplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storewe hear some entertaining,comical,tragic,moving and frankly strange stories including tales of the‘stilyagi'soviet hipsters,the first disco in moscow,we ask if counterculture possible in the oppressive,repressive circumstances of the soviet union?and we hear how rock music evolved in secret before breaking into the light as perestroika transformed soviet societyand prohibited russian music to take the risk of making their own recordscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableart appeared in our first book
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The first time the culture of x-ray records and bone music was written about in the west was in the book’back in the ussr:the true story of russian rock’are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe author of that book was veteran russian broadcaster,cultural commentator and journalist artemyi troitskybut a secret underground subculture of music lovers and pirates opposed the censorshipincredibly,they built their own recording devices and used an exceptional means to copy prohibited jazz,rock'n'roll and prohibited russian music to take the risk of making their own recordsthis is the unique/the beatles "she's leaving home" x ray/spine(included original packing from ) **the chain to be seen is unique for the x-ray exposure** i see that two times when i visited the exhibition with my father who,like myself,was thrilled by this peculiar wonderful type of anti-suppression after an exhibition in the horse hospital,london:-07feb 16(see picture ) pure collectible recording audible but of course not so good!) read morethe beatles "she's leaving home" lost culture of bone music/ x-ray audio -in the ussr during the cold war,the music that people could hear was ruthlessly controlled by the stateplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storewe hear some entertaining,comical,tragic,moving and frankly strange stories including tales of the‘stilyagi'soviet hipsters,the first disco in moscow,we ask if counterculture possible in the oppressive,repressive circumstances of the soviet union?and we hear how rock music evolved in secret before breaking into the light as perestroika transformed soviet societycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableart appeared in our first book
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Oxfam bookshop raeburn place the western seaboard: an illustrated architectural guide (rias series of illustrated architectural guides to scotland) "drawing on a lifetime's knowledge of this wild corner of britain, mary miers takes us beyond the familiar sounds and scenery of the west highlands and islands to uncover an extraordinary record of human settlement, from the earliest 'terraced' houses on the machair of bronze age uist to scots baronial piles set amid semi-tropical gardensthis is the ideal accompaniment for anyone withing to visit some of the most haunting landscapes in the world and learn something of those who inhabit them" fine conditionon the way she encounters the shrines and stongholds of medieval gaeldom; planned fishing stations, canals and railways; houses ranging from the fashionable to the vernacular and the highland urbanism of portree, fort william and stornowaythis richly illustrated handbook reveals how the architecture of the western seaboard has transformed itself through at least four cultures - a compelling story of survival and revivalsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is a story of holy men and holiday-makers, seafarers, warriors and crofters, and of the enduring infulences of relition and clanship in the face of repeated waves of modernisation
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Soviet leaders had suppressed most western popular music since the days of jazz, but the beatles and the bands they inspired-both in the west and in russia-battered down the walls of state cultureoxfam shop macclesfield imagine a world where beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical x-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband lps, spotty broadcasts taped from western am radio late in the nightleslie woodhead's how the beatles rocked the kremlin tells the unforgettable-and endearingly odd-story of russians who discovered that all you need is beatlesthe music of john, paul, george, and ringo played a part in waking up an entire generation of soviet youth, opening their eyes to seventy years of bland official culture and rigid authoritarianism" see oxfam website for delivery information read more"bitles," they whispered, "yeah, yeah, yeahby stealth, by way of whispers, through the illicit late night broadcasts on radio luxembourg, the soviet beatles kids tuned inthis was no fantasy world populated by blue meanies but the ussr, where a vast nation of music fans risked repression to hear the defining band of the british invasion
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This unique book gives a detailed genealogical account of the authentic line of succession of the royal blood from the sons of jesus and his brother james down to the present daythere is also a fascinating history of the knights templars of jerusalemit casts penetrating new light on the bible story and onto the enigmatic figures of joseph of arimathea and mary magdalene, and on the real truth behind the arthurian legends and the holy grailoxfam shop evesham did jesus marry and have children? if so, what happened to his family? are there descendants of his still alive today? at last the truth can be told, this extraordinary and controversial book, packed with intrigue, begins where others have endedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelaurence gardener has been granted privileged access to european sovereign and noble archives, along with special insight into chivalric and church repositorieshe proves for the first time that there is a royal heritage of the messiah in the west, and documents the systematic and continuing suppression of records tracing the descent of the sacred lineage by regimes down the centuries
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a surprise best seller in england, the abolition of britain is bitingly witty and fiercely argued, yet also filled with somber appreciation for what "the idea of england" has always meant to the west and to the world at large" see oxfam website for delivery information read moreone english critic called the abolition of britain "an elegant jeremiad" in which peter hitchens identifies everything that has gone wrong with britain since world war ii and makes the case for "those many millions who feel that they have become foreigners in their own land and wish with each succeeding day that they could turn the clock back"writing with passion and flair, hitchens targets the pernicious effects of tv culture, the "corruption and decay" of the english language, the loss of politeness, and the "syrupy confessional mood" brought on by the death of diana, which hitchens contrasts with the somber national response to the death of winston churchilllooking at the changed face of his country, hitchens finds a "politically correct zeal for the new" whose impact on daily life has been "as devastating in effect, if not in violence, as mao tse tung's cultural revolution in chinathe new britain is government by focus group in which people are told what to feel as a way of preventing them from asking how they want to be governedif there is a term that summarizes everything that has gone wrong in britain, it is "tony blairism," which hitchens sees as having rewritten england's history, trivialized its journalism, subverted its educational system and cultural standards, and overthrown accepted notions of patriotism, faith, and morality
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The two appendices include a chronological chart and the basic law of the federal republicthe d-j has a closed tear at the top but is largely intact the text is clean and the white cloth casing alsooxfam shop darley street merkl (political science, u calif, santa barbara), starts with the potsdam conference, , and then explores the evolution of the spd/cdu party systemsee oxfam website for delivery information read more this is a very sound copy with normal second/hand wearbibliography and indexhis chief interest is in the development of the w german constitution
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Special chapters are devoted to the development of religion, which both in the east & in the west was to shape spiritual life for millenniatechniques & technology are examined within the context of the societies that created & utilized themthis is from a multivolume work produced under the auspices of unescoafter an introduction which summarizes briefly the main historical events of the period, the authors deal with such fundamental questions as the formation of the greek & latin tongues, the evolution of the indo-aryan & indo-chinese languagesthe philosophers who laid the basis of all thinking are studied in detailfinally the authors analyze the emergence of literature & artsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit gives a lively, readable global history, illustrated with 80 plates, 14 figures & 17 mapscontents in three parts: from ca bc to ca 500 bc, from 500 bc to the christian era & from the beginning of the christian era to ca ad 500the concept of the greek polis, the formulation of the roman res publica (including the gradual evolution of roman law), the constitution of chinese public administration, are noted in detail as so many important contributions to the conduct of affairsthey describe classical science, which in greece & india created a new relationship between humans & nature
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Ed gorman and simon pearson paint a vivid picture of the men and their machines as the battle for air superiority over britain is played out across the skies of europe, from the west of ireland to the german capitalthere is a small worn patch near the top of the spine of the dust jacket and slight bumping to the top of the spine and the corners of the front coverwe experience the battle chronologically through the remarkable stories of seventeen airmen from across the worldotherwise the book is in very good condition with sound binding and clean, unmarked pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome will be new to many readers: the new zealander who "borrowed" a seaplane from the royal navy to set up a freelance air-sea rescue service that saved the lives of dozens of british and german pilots; the swiss baron who claimed to have destroyed six british fighters in a day; the vainglorious commander whose raf squadron was wiped out trying to disrupt nazi invasion plans; and the german bomber pilot who fought the first battle involving foreign troops on british soil since culloden - before repairing to a pub for a pint with soldiers who had taken him prisoneroxfam bookshop new milton used, very good condition, hard cover with dust jacket, publishedillustrated with contemporary photographs of the pilots and their aircraft, this is an enthralling and original account from both sides of a conflict that shaped the modern world, full of courage, endeavour and, above all, humanity
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Oxfam bookshop shaftesbury what were the beginnings of the english language? why has american culture spread so successfully and will it continue to do so even as the countries power apparently wanes? why are the west indies no longer any good at cricket? what difference did slavery make to the way we speak english today?packed with nuggets of information about language, culture, history and power, robert mccrum traces the way that the english language as twisted and turned in response to the way the world has changed, and how, even as the british empire is long dead, the language extends its influence further and further in a globalised worldpages all in clean crisp condition see oxfam website for delivery information read morecloth cover in good condition with some signs of wear to the spine edgesauthors signature to the title pagebook condition: dust jacket in good condition with some signs of being read to the edges
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It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the westwith general shelfwear and foxingamis's remarkable memoir explores these connectionsthe author's father, kingsley amis, though later reactionary in tendency, was 'a comintern dogsbody' (as he would come to put it) from tokoba the dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of stalin's aphorismoxfam shop colne road koba the dread is the successor to martin amis's celebrated memoir, experiencesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein between the personal beginning and the personal ending, amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about stalin: koba the dread, iosif the terriblehis second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet philip larkin), was robert conquest, a leading sovietologist, whose book of , the great terror, was second only to solzhenitsyn's the gulag archipelago in undermining the ussrstalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere 'statistic'it is largely political (while remaining personal)
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A global threatkit finds himself in morocco on the trail of lara bartok - a leading figure in resurrection, a revolutionary movement whose brutal attacks on right-wing politicians have spread violence throughout the west'an instant classic of the genre' mick herron'the man between is up there with the best - full of thrills, wit and fine writing' peter robinson see oxfam website for delivery information read morei read it one breathless sitting' ian rankina gripping new standalone spy thriller, recalling the classic film casablanca, from the winner of the cwa ian fleming steel dagger for best thriller of the year and 'the master of the modern spy thriller' (mail on sunday)a simple tasksuccessful novelist kit carradine has grown restlessoxfam bookshop brigg 'recommendeda dangerous targetdrawn to lara, but caught between competing intelligence services who want her dead, kit faces an awful choice: abandon her to her fate or risk everything trying to save herso when british intelligence invites him to enter the secret world of espionage, he willingly takes a leap into the unknown
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Byron rogers' previous books for aurum have twice been radio 4 book of the weekthomas is now accepted, along with ted hughes, philip larkin and seamus heaney, as one of the great post-war british poetsall his life, he was a minister in the church of wales, at a succession of increasingly remote country parishesthomas (an english-educated man who set out to become more and more welsh throughout his life)it is a hilarious and extraordinary story of a singular manit describes the life of one of 20th-century english literature's greatest poetsthis is sure to be widely reviewed for his second biography rogers - a welshman who moved to england - has found the perfect subject: the great welsh poet rnow byron rogers has unearthed the amazing story of this man's life, and that of his household - one both comic, absurd and touchingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe had a reputation for being an austere, unforgiving, taciturn, wintry manto thomas's many admirers this will be a surprising, sometimes shocking, but at last humanising portrait of someone who wrote truly metaphysical poetrythomas's poetry published by penguin modern classics, orion and bloodaxe with substantial sales every yearhe is regarded in wales as the national poethere is a man who banned hoovers from his house on grounds of noise, whose first act on moving into an ancient cottage was to rip out the central heating, whose attempts to seek out more authentically welsh parishes only brought him more into contact with loud english holidaymakersoxfam shop dumfries this is the follow-up to the author's previous biography, the critically acclaimed and sales success, "the last englishman"
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This edition is edited and with an introduction by eric colledgehe also explores the extent of christianity's borrowings from other faiths and philosophies, with many quotations and opens up a larger perspective for the texts which make up the body of the bookthis hardback edition is in very good condition, tightly bound with clean cream pagesthe 90 page introduction is masterly, and any reader must be the wiser for this study of the development of devotional spirituality in the west; besides his appreciation colledge does not hesitate to point out the failings of some of the more popular devotional writers and the abuses which rose from misunderstood passages in their writingsoxfam bookshop new milton the writings of the english mystics have now largely been recovered from historical obscurity and are gradually being edited and printedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more the dust jacket has a little fraying on the bottom edge but is otherwise in very good condition for its age this is the first volume in a new series devoted to exploring the riches of christianity
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Sally taylor's biography of this flamboyant individual also explores the source and content of the news the west received between the world wars, and raises issues about the role of the press in modern societyoxfam books & music perth journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parishe hushed up the great famine of the early s and glossed over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the "times" in the late showever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selectivesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewithin months of duranty arriving in moscow as a correspondent for the "new york times" the romanovs were deposed, but he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the western colonyhis newspaper career was equally glittering - his interview with stalin won him the pulitzer prize and his articles played a prominent role in gaining american recognition for the ussr in
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Taking in a civil war in turkey, the ruins of beirut, the tensions of the west bank and a fundamentalist uprising in egypt, william dalrymple's account is a stirring elegy to the dying civilisation of eastern christianityoxfam bookshop cheltenham a rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of william dalrymple's previous workalmost years later, using the writings of john moschos as his guide, william dalrymple set off to retrace their footstepssee oxfam website for delivery information read morein ad 587, two monks, john moschos and sophronius the sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the byzantine world, from the shores of the bosphorus to the sand dunes of egypttheir aim: to collect the wisdom of the sages and mystics of the byzantine east before their fragile world shattered under the eruption of islam
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Oxfam shop hebden bridge the complete seventh and final season of the award-winning drama series starring martin sheenepisodes comprise: 'the ticket', 'the mommy problem', 'message of the week', 'mrfrost', 'here today', 'the al smith dinner', 'the debate', 'undecideds', 'the wedding', 'running mates', 'internal displacement', 'duck and cover', 'the cold', 'two weeks out', 'welcome to wherever you are', 'election day (part 1)', 'election day (part 2)', 'requiem', 'transition', 'the last hurrah', 'institutional memory' and 'tomorrow'in this season president bartlet (sheen) confronts nuclear saber rattling, and is forced to deal with the untimely death of a close friend and colleaguesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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In excellent conditionalso included is interview footage with pilger from the guardian hay literary festivalthe documentaries included are: 'year zero - the silent death of cambodia'; 'nicaragua - a nation's right to survive'; 'burp! pepsi vs coke in the ice cold war'; 'flying the flag - arming the world'; 'vietnam - the quiet mutiny'; death of a nation - the timor conspiracy'; 'inside burma - land of fear'; 'welcome to australia'; 'paying the price: killing the children of iraq'; 'palestine is still the issue'; 'breaking the silence: truth and lies in the war on terror'; and 'stealing a nation'oxfam shop inverness twelve documentaries from the campaigning journalist john pilger, exposing the west's continued exploitation of the third world, and criticising the military interventions of western governments, from cambodia to iraq see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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