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INVISIBLE WALLS - HELLA PICK KARTONIERT (TB)

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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