Frontlines: Snapshots of History (Reuters) [Hardcover]

"If you are a news junkie, journalist, or just someone who likes to know the behind-the-scenes detail, this book will be a favorite in your library for many years to come. "

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"C19? That’s the execution cell. You’re lucky, mate, to come out of there alive." Sandy Gall, on being held in a Ugandan death cell

"The US Air Force at Wiesbaden was claiming that one of its aircraft had been shot down over East Germany. Bonn's debonair request was: could I please find it?" Frederick Forsyth, on outwitting the East German stasi secret police

"I left Beirut a week after the shooting, the bullet still in my back…censorship by bullet and death threat was working." Bernd Debusman, on the attempt to assassinate him in Lebanon

"Two hooks with all Frazier’s weight behind them caught Ali’s jaw and seemed to work their way down to his legs… Imelda Marcos looked down at her feet and her husband winced." Rick Norsworthy, on the Thrilla in Manilla

"…soldier-assassins jumped from an army truck and ran towards the dais where Sadat sat. They lifted their rifles above the parapet, pumping round after round into his torso. Too vain or too brave, he wore no bullet-proof vest." David Rogers, on the assassination of President Anwar Sadat of Egypt

"The Soviet plane…opened its doors and Khrushchev appeared, a small, squat waddling creature in a baggy, creased light grey suit." John Earle, on Khrushchev’s visit to Yugoslavia

…."I do not remember the sound of the anti-tank mine… I only recall an almighty kick and a black cloud that blotted out everything. Like dying, presumably." Hugh Pain, on surviving a Bosnian landmine…

Think of the major news stories of the postwar era.

Think of the places: the D-Day beaches, Everest, Vietnam, Hollywood, Berlin, and Tianenmen Square. Reuters journalists were there.

Think of the personalities of the last sixty years: Nelson Mandela, Jackie Kennedy, Che Guevara, Idi Imin, Charles de Gaulle, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Margaret Thatcher. Reuters journalists met them.

Frontlines relates the personal stories of those correspondents who have found themselves in the most remarkable situations. What was it really like to tread on Chairman Mao’s toes, meet Elvis, or report ringside from a Muhammed Ali fight? How does it feel when, in the turmoil of post-colonial Africa, you hear someone being executed outside your prison cell, or when, reporting on the war in Yugoslavia, your jeep is taken out by a landmine?

Written by award-winning Reuters journalists - many of whom have gone on to achieve celebrity status - and supported by breathtaking photography, Frontlines offers eyewitness accounts of the stories behind the pictures the world has seen, as well as providing a fascinating insight into the life of a foreign correspondent.

"This is eye witness history but something more -- a personal group portrait by brave and committed journalists." Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations