Strange Places, Questionable People: Home truths from far away places - Couverture rigide

Simpson, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333724194 ISBN 13 : 9780333724194

Editeur : Macmillan, 1998

Synopsis

In this autobiography, BBC foreign news editor, John Simpson reflects on his career. His experiences range from being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson, posing as a mercenary in Zaire, escaping summary execution in Beirut, to tangling with the cocaine barons of Colombia.;Wilson was the first British journalist on the scene as the Berlin Wall came down, and also followed the revolution sweeping Eastern Europe from Berlin to Prague to Bucharest. Weeks later, he was in South Africa to witness the release of Nelson Mandela. He has met and interviewed: Colonel Ghaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Indira Gandhi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Radovan Karadzic, and Fidel Castro. Wilson's association with the BBC also enables him to give an insider's view of the change which has overtaken the corporation since he joined it in 1966.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333724194
• ISBN 13: 9780333724194
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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