{"product_id":"9780007171859_shooting-history-a-personal-journey","title":"Shooting History: A Personal Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow’s memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon Snow is perhaps the most highly regarded newsman of our time; his qualities as a journalist and as a human being – his passion, warmth, intelligence, frankness and humour – are widely recognised and evident for all to see most nights on Channel 4 News and now in the pages of his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis vivid personal chronicle is filled with anecdotes and pithy observations, and delightfully records his life and times since becoming a journalist in the early 1970s. He reported widely on Cold War conflicts in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Angola and Central America before becoming a resident correspondent in Washington D.C. in the 1980s, and he has met and interviewed most of the world’s leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing lessons from these experiences, he has pertinent things to say about how the increasing world disorder came about following the fall of the Berlin Wall; how the West’s constant search for an enemy has helped unhinge the world; and how and why the media have, in general, been less than helpful in drawing attention to key political and global developments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jon Snow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895271936149,"sku":"9780007171859","price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007171859_b75b15c9-1212-4bec-85b0-90201f2749ca.jpg?v=1776888512","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007171859_shooting-history-a-personal-journey","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}