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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Christopher Hitchens: a life in pictures

Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'Portrait of the author as a young man. The novel is called Soft Answers, and it proved to be second-rate'
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Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'Without any previous qualifications, I became a member of the Church of England. Malta, 1949'
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Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'On a picket line at a non-union factory'
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Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'Blockading a racist hairdresser, 1968. I am at the back, on the right-hand side. Arrest to follow'
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Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'In Cuba, at a work camp for young revolutionaries, 1968'
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Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'In Iraq, with an atheist banner, 1975'
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Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
"In Nicaragua with Vice-President Sergio Ramirez, a Sandinista and novelist"
Photograph: PR
Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'With James Fenton and The Skip'
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Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'Reviewing the situation with Martin Amis in Cape Cod, 1975'
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Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'Passing on our genes: Martin Amis and I with Louis and Alexander, Cape Cod, 1985'
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Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'With Kurds on a destroyed Iraqi tank'
Photograph: Ed Kashi/ Ed Kashi/Corbis
Christopher Hitchens: Christopher Hitchens
'With Pesh Merga in Iraq, 8 July 1991'
Photograph: © Ed Kashi/Corbis/Corbis
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