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Simpson's world : dispatches from the front lines / John Simpson

A memoir detailing a career with the BBC, including visits to over one hundred countries and interviews with 120 world leaders. It features frontline accounts from twenty-nine wars and uprisings, including Tiananmen Square and conflict in Colombia.

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