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  • Published: 1 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099526681
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $35.00

Nothing But the Truth

Selected Dispatches




A wide-ranging and lasting collection of writing by one of the most outstanding and courageous reporters of our era.

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.

  • Published: 1 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099526681
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $35.00

About the author

Anna Politkovskaya

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, and a collection of works, Nothing But the Truth. Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow in October 2006.

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Praise for Nothing But the Truth

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

The dispatches selected for this volume...make for a compelling body of work

Mary Dejevsky, Indepedent

Haunting compilation

Peter Preston, Observer

Shows her strength as a chronicler... Her eye for detail was unfailing

John Lloyd, Financial Times

This collection of journalism should remind people of the big, obvious fact that sometimes gets forgotten: Anna Politkovskaya was a fantastic reporter. She knew what a story was, how to get it and how to tell it. Dead or alive, she demands to be read and heard and trusted...

Andrew Hosken, The Oldie

There is some remarkable court reporting. Proceedings to bring one mass murderer to justice are brought brilliantly to life. But it is not all death and destruction. Also included is other journalism, including some delightful pieces on issues ranging from death of passion in Russia to the challenges in brining up a psychologically damaged dog....Politkovskya was murdered...but she has not been silenced and her journalism should continue to speak to us long after the riffraff she confronted are thankfully gone from the scene

The Oldie

An impressive testimony to the most courageous form of journalism- dedicated to unearthing inconvenient facts and making uncomfortable arguments

Financial Times

Anna Politkovskaya refused to lie, in her work; her murder is a ghastly act, and an attack on world literature

Nadine Gordimer

We will continue to read her and learn from her for years

Salman Rushdie

Her death is a grave crime against the country, against all of us

Mikhail Gorbachev

Terrifying... Intense... Breathtaking

Jon Snow