Full name: The Kindness of Strangers: The Autobiography

Author: Kate Adie Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Travel, Memoirs, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780755310739 075531073X

Kate Adie has courageously reported from all over the world since she joined the BBC in 1969. These memoirs encompass her reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and, of course, the Gulf War of 1991. From the siege at the Iranian embassy which shot her to public acclaim, to an alarming encounter with a drunken Libyan army commander who shot her at point-blank range, from the chaos and mayhem of desert warfare to Gracie Field's bizarre funeral, Kate has cooly kept us in touch through her reasoned and level reporting. Although an intensely private person, Kate Adie also divulges how, despite being sent to outlandish places at a moment's notice, she's maintained her interest in sailing, singing, and theatre, and what it's like to be a woman in a man's world. Similar books: The Good Times by Russell Baker Looking Back by Lois Lowry Traci Lords: Underneath It All by Traci Lords Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin In Spite of Myself by Christopher Plummer Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing In Pieces by Sally Field Then Again by Diane Keaton Nobody's Son by Luis Alberto Urrea Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier An Open Book by Monica Dickens No More Words by Reeve Lindbergh A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout It's What I Do by Lynsey Addario Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby River of Time by Jon Swain Little Princes by Conor Grennan