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Looking for trouble : the life and times of a foreign correspondent / Richard Beeston.

By: Publication details: London : Tauris Parke Paperbacks ;, New York : Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.Edition: [2nd ed.]Description: xvi, 178 p., [16] plates : ill. ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1845112776 (pbk.) :
  • 9781845112776 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN5123.B35  A3 2006
Summary: "Looking for Trouble" is a vivid account of 35 years in journalism by a former foreign correspondent and bureau chief of "The Daily Telegraph," It recounts an extraordinary and eventful period in the years before instant communication and mass TV coverage and provides a riveting first-hand record of history unfurling during many of the world #8217' s most dramatic events of the Cold War era. Richard Beeston describes what the restless, nomadic life of a foreign correspondent is like, providing colourful and lively portrayals of daily life in Fleet Street and communist Moscow; of his years with a radio station for MI6 in the Middle East; and of his acquaintance with the notorious Soviet agent, Kim Philby. Richard Beeston led a truly extraordinary life, superbly captured in this acclaimed memoir #8211; now published in paperback for the first time. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169) and index.

"Looking for Trouble" is a vivid account of 35 years in journalism by a former foreign correspondent and bureau chief of "The Daily Telegraph," It recounts an extraordinary and eventful period in the years before instant communication and mass TV coverage and provides a riveting first-hand record of history unfurling during many of the world #8217' s most dramatic events of the Cold War era. Richard Beeston describes what the restless, nomadic life of a foreign correspondent is like, providing colourful and lively portrayals of daily life in Fleet Street and communist Moscow; of his years with a radio station for MI6 in the Middle East; and of his acquaintance with the notorious Soviet agent, Kim Philby. Richard Beeston led a truly extraordinary life, superbly captured in this acclaimed memoir #8211; now published in paperback for the first time. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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