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Egyptische symbolen

Door Heike Owusu

Categorie	Het oude Egypte
Boeknummer	#427922-XS30
Titel	Egyptische symbolen
Auteur	Owusu, heike
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Hoevelaken : Verba
Jaar van uitgave	1999
ISBN10	9055133612
ISBN13	9789055133611
Taal	Nederlands
Beschrijving	Paperback, veel illustraties in z/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The Chechen War was supposed to be over in 1996 after the first Yeltsin campaign, but in the summer of 1999, the new Putin government decided, in their own words, to 'do the job properly'. Before all the bodies of those who had died in the first campaign had been located or identified, many more thousands would be slaughtered in another round of fighting. The first account to be written by a Russian woman, A Dirty War is an edgy and intense study of a conflict that shows no sign of being resolved. Exasperated by the Russian government's attempt to manipulate media coverage of the war, journalist Anna Politkovskaya undertook to go to Chechnya, to make regular reports and keep events in the public eye. In a series of despatches from July 1999 to January 2001 she vividly describes the atrocit... (Lees verder)ies and abuses of war, whether it be the corruption endemic in post-Communist Russia, in particular the government and the military, or the spurious arguments and abominable behaviour of the Chechen authorities. In these courageous reports, Politkovskaya excoriates male stupidity and brutality on both sides of the conflict and interviews the civilians whose homes and communities have been laid waste, leaving them nowhere to live, and nothing and no one to believe in.
Pagina's	302
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 5,00

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