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The highly-charged diaries of the first western hostage of the modern era, published verbatim for the first time, some forty years after his release. Recorded secretly in shorthand, the diaries chronicle two years of solitary confinement in the heart of Beijing during the chaotic Cultural Revolution, which resulted in three million deaths. A key part of the author's fight against isolation and despair, they describe the psychological battle for survival all hostages face - and show how keeping a diary can help face up to many hardships. Interspersed with reflections on how Anthony Grey sees the ordeal today - as 'a delayed-action privilege'- and how the experience changed his life.
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'The Hostage Handbook has much in common with The Diary of Anne Frank. It covers a similar period of time - two years and two months - and I believe it will also inspire in the same way, the many people who read it.' John Clementsauthor of the self-help guide book Aspire to Greatness. --John Clements
'It is a remarkably human and inspiring document. While still a prisoner he thought this was a completely wasted period of his life. Now as so often happens when human beings are faced with extreme deprivation, he has turned it into a remarkable achievement.' Joyce Dunbar, author of The Monster Who Ate Darkness. --Joyce Dunbar
'An important document at a time when hostage-taking has become so frequent as to be almost commonplace in some parts of the world... Its author emerges as a man of extraordinary courage, resilience and strength of character - but also of remarkable modesty.' Vergil Berger, former Reuters bureau chief in Beijing. --Vergil Berger
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'It is a remarkably human and inspiring document. While still a prisoner he thought this was a completely wasted period of his life. Now as so often happens when human beings are faced with extreme deprivation, he has turned it into a remarkable achievement.' Joyce Dunbar, author of The Monster Who Ate Darkness. --Joyce Dunbar
'An important document at a time when hostage-taking has become so frequent as to be almost commonplace in some parts of the world... Its author emerges as a man of extraordinary courage, resilience and strength of character - but also of remarkable modesty.' Vergil Berger, former Reuters bureau chief in Beijing. --Vergil Berger
Effectively the first international western hostage of the modern era, Anthony Grey, then a foreign correspondent for Reuters, was held two years in solitary confinement in the heart of Beijing at the height of the China's Cultural Revolution. A 200-strong mob of Red Guards invaded his home close to the Forbidden City one sweltering summer night yelling `Hang Grey!' before hanging his cat in his face and imprisoning him in a slogan-daubed, eight-foot square `cell' on the ground floor.
Remarkably, he managed to keep secret shorthand diaries hidden from his guards. The Hostage Handbook is the first full transcript of those unique diaries, published now to mark the fortieth anniversary of his release. Often highly-charged, the entries portray in detail the physical and psychological battle for survival all hostages must face. The author, now a bestselling historical novelist, also intersperses the diary with present day reflections on how the experience changed his life, how greatly China has changed and how, sadly, ever more vicious hostage-taking has since become an all too familiar part of international life.
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- PublisherTagman Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1906749469
- ISBN 13 9781906749460
- BindingPaperback
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