Strange Places, Questionable People - Softcover

Simpson, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 033035566X ISBN 13: 9780330355667

Publisher: Pan, 1999

Synopsis

The first volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson.

Since the 1970s, 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 Tehran 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.

In Strange Places, Questionable People, Simpson recounts these stories with candid honesty. With his uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time, this autobiography offers a ringside seat to every major event in recent global history.

'So vivid I could feel my heart beating' – Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator

'Great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious' – The Daily Telegraph

The fascinating stories continue in John Simpson's second volume of autobiography, A Mad World, My Masters.

About this title

About the Author

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 four 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. He is also the author of The Wars Against Saddam, Twenty Tales from the War Zone and Unreliable Sources, as well as several novels. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.

From the Back Cover

For over thirty years John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our times.

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, John 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pan
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 033035566X
• ISBN 13: 9780330355667
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592