{"product_id":"2940170212545","title":"Shooting History: A Personal Journey (Abridged)","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\u003cp\u003eRead by the author.\u003c\/p\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 recognized and evident for all to see most nights on television Channel 4 News and now by his own voice 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 has met and interviewed most of the world¿s leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing lessons from these experiences, he has sharp 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":"HarperCollins UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161336692976,"sku":"2940170212545","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170212545_p0.jpg?v=1763705135","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170212545","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}