Book description
On 13 November 2001, John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul
and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting
world. It was the end of a sustained campaign against the Taliban, a
campaign that Simpson had covered from the beginning, despite appalling
difficulties and, often, great danger. In this, his third riveting
volume of autobiography, John Simpson focuses on how journalists set
about finding the stories that make the headlines. It is quintessential
Simpson: vivid, utterly absorbing and written with all the care and
lucidity of his reporting style. 'Great stories told with great
gusto...an easy and rewarding read' Jon Snow, Daily Mail. 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.
