by John Simpson · Hutchinson · tapa dura · ISBN 9780091772529
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«The Darkness Crumbles: Despatches from the Barricades» is the historical essay by John Simpson, published by Hutchinson in hardcover (320 pages, in English).
John Simpson, BBC journalist, recounts his testimony of the 1989-1990 revolutions in the communist bloc: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the changes in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania, and the turn by Mikhail Gorbachev in the USSR. It also covers Tiananmen, the release of Nelson Mandela and interviews with the protagonists.
Revised and updated edition, published in 1992 from the original 1990 chronicle; includes more than 90 photographs and 12 maps.
For readers interested in the political history of Eastern Europe, the fall of communism and international journalism.
John Cody Fidler-Simpson is an English foreign correspondent who is currently the world affairs editor of BBC News. He holds dual British-Irish citizenship. He has spent all his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine.
