Description
| Product ID: | 9780330355667 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Strange Places, Questionable People |
| Authors: | Author: John Simpson |
| Page Count: | 576 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, News media and journalism, Press & journalism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first bestselling volume of autobiography from John Simpson, the BBC World Affairs Editor <p>For over thirty years, 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 Teheran 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. With Simpson's uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time, this autobiography is a ring-side seat at every major event in recent global history.<br><br> 'So vivid I could feel my heart beating' Jonathan Mirsky, <i>Spectator </i><br><br> 'great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-10-03 |