One of the greatest reporters of his day writes a brilliant and typically opinionated account of how the British press has reported key moments in our history

John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year. He has also won three BAFTAs, including the Richard Dimbleby award in 1991 and the News and Current Affairs award in 2000 for his coverage, with the BBC News team, of the Kosovo conflict. He has written four volumes of autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People, A Mad World, My Masters, News from No Man¿s Land and, most recently, Not Quite World's End, a childhood memoir, Days from a Different World and The Wars Against Saddam.