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Invisible Walls - A Journalist in Search of Her Life (Paperback)
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Invisible Walls - A Journalist in Search of Her Life (Paperback)
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'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE 'A
remarkable personal journey, by one of the great political
correspondents of our world - eloquent, enlightening, exhilarating'
PHILIPPE SANDS A trailblazer for women in journalism, Hella Pick
arrived in Britain in 1939 as a child refugee from Austria. Over
nearly four decades she covered the volatile global scene, first in
West Africa, followed by America and long periods in Europe. In her
thirty-five years with the Guardian she reported on the end of
Empire in West Africa, the assassination of President Kennedy,
Martin Luther King's march from Selma to Montgomery, the Vietnam
peace negotiation in Paris, the 1968 student revolt in France, the
birth of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the closing stages
of the Cold War. A request for coffee on board a Soviet ship
anchored in Malta led to a chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. A request
for an interview with Willy Brandt led to a personal friendship
that enabled her to come to terms with Germany's Nazi past. Her
book is also a clarion call for preserving professionalism in
journalism at a time when social media muddy the waters between
fact and fiction, and between reporting and commentary. INVISIBLE
WALLS tells the dramatic story of how a Kindertransport survivor
won the trust and sometimes the friendship of world leaders, and
with them a wide range of remarkable men and women. It speaks
frankly of personal heartache and of a struggle over her Jewish
identity. It is also the intensely touching story of how, despite a
gift for friendship and international recognised achievements as a
woman journalist, a continuing sense of personal insecurity has
confronted her with a series of invisible walls.
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