We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent

ISBN-13: 9781408872246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str.

John Simpson

Opis

From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world

Recenzje

Great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious Carmen Callil Daily Telegraph, on 'Strange Places, Questionable People'

O autorze

Simpson, JohnJohn Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. In a BBC career spanning fifty years he has reported on major world events from all corners of the globe, and was made a CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year, and has won three BAFTAs, the News and Current Affairs award in 2000 for his coverage, with the BBC News team, of the Kosovo conflict, and, in 2001, an Emmy for his report on the fall of Kabul. He has written four bestselling volumes of autobiography: Strange Places, Questionable People; A Mad World, My Masters; News from No Man's Land and, more recently, Not Quite World's End. He lives in Oxford.