Strange Places, Questionable People: Updated With a New Chapter on Kosovo

Simpson, John

ISBN 10: 033035566X / ISBN 13: 9780330355667

Verlag: Macmillan Pub Ltd, 1999

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 033035566X-4-37109376

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The first volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson.

Since the 1970s, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson on one of his first days as a reporter, to escaping summary execution in Beirut, flying into Tehran with the returning Ayatollah Khomeini, and narrowly avoiding entrapment by a beautiful Czech secret agent, Simpson has had an astonishingly eventful career. In 1989 he witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism throughout Eastern Europe and, only weeks later, in South Africa, the release of Nelson Mandela.

In Strange Places, Questionable People, Simpson recounts these stories with candid honesty. With his uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time, this autobiography offers a ringside seat to every major event in recent global history.

'So vivid I could feel my heart beating' – Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator

'Great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious' – The Daily Telegraph

The fascinating stories continue in John Simpson's second volume of autobiography, A Mad World, My Masters.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and won countless other major television awards. He has written several books, including four volumes of autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People, A Mad World, My Masters, News from No Man's Land and Not Quite World's End and a childhood memoir, Days from a Different World. He is also the author of The Wars Against Saddam, Twenty Tales from the War Zone and Unreliable Sources, as well as several novels. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.

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Titel: Strange Places, Questionable People: Updated...
Verlag: Macmillan Pub Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Fair