Book description
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. 'So vivid I could feel my heart beating' Jonathan
Mirsky, Spectator 'great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes
hilarious' Daily Telegraph
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, is also published by Pan
Macmillan. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and
their son, Rafe.
