Strange Places, Questionable People

by JohnSimpson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  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

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.25

  In this autobiography, BBC foreign news editor, John Simpson reflects on his career. His experiences range from being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson, posing as a mercenary in Zaire, escaping summary execution in Beirut, to tangling with the cocaine barons of Colombia.;Wilson was the first British journalist on the scene as the Berlin Wall came down, and also followed the revolution sweeping Eastern Europe from Berlin to Prague to Bucharest. Weeks later, he was in South Africa to witness the release of Nelson Mandela. He has met and interviewed: Colonel Ghaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Indira Gandhi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Radovan Karadzic, and Fidel Castro. Wilson's association with the BBC also enables him to give an insider's view of the change which has overtaken the corporation since he joined it in 1966.

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $18.37

  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