John Simpson Cd Box Set 'Strange Places, Questionable People' , 'a Mad World, My Masters' , 'News from No Man's Land' , 'the Wars Against Saddam

Simpson, John

ISBN 10: 1405048638 / ISBN 13: 9781405048637

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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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• Titre: John Simpson Cd Box Set 'Strange Places, Questionable People' , 'a Mad World, My Masters' , 'News from No Man's Land' , 'the Wars Against Saddam
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1405048638
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781405048637
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 703 grammes

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Synopsis

With Simpson's uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time, his autobiographies are a ring-side seat at every major event in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

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 the Teheran with the returning Ayatollah Khomeini, John 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.

On 13 November 2001, he and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world.

His extraordinary experiences also include stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen.

'Great stories told with great gusto...an easy and rewarding read' Jon Snow, Daily Mail

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 five 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. The Wars Against Saddam, his account of the West's relationship with Iraq and his two decades reporting on that relationship encompassing two Gulf Wars and the fall of Saddam Hussein, and Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century Was Reported are also published by Pan Macmillan. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.