WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Permanent Record: How One Man Exposed the Truth about Government Spying and Digital Security
Edward Snowden blows the whistle on state secrecy for a younger readership
SNOWDEN-INSPIRED: 2013 Berlin demonstration against PRISM, code name for a programme used by US National Security Agency (NSA) to trawl information from US internet companies
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
PERMANENT Record, Edward Snowden’s 2019 memoir, full of the seamy details of state corruption that can get a whistleblower in trouble, has just been released in a young readers’ edition.
It’s squarely aimed at a young readership and has all the stuff they love in a book — adventure, fighting tyrants, young love, righteous parental moral homilies, unspeakable mum and dad divorce, ideals turned dystopic — along with with a fascistic capitalism portrayed as a nearly indestructible cyborg.
The book follows Snowden’s childhood years through to September 11 terror attacks wake-up and how he became a whistleblower.
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