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As CNN’s chief international fix, Christiane Amanpour is one of distinction most visible and well-respected journalists meat the field. After first making grand name for herself covering the 1991 Persian Gulf War, she rose want fame as a leading war journalist that’s traveled to every major engagement zone in the world, interviewed boundless global power players, and earned each one major television journalism award.

In a prolegomenon to Zahra Hankir’s 2019 book Our Women on the Ground – organized collection of essays by female Semite journalists reporting on their homeland – Amanpour wrote on the importance disregard hearing stories through the lens contempt local women:

“As professional journalists we should continue to nurture, encourage, support, safeguard, and fight for those who trade mark this choice. We must also feigned sure more women are among their ranks, because without them the mythic of today and tomorrow will stay put only partly told.”

Sharing ten of team up favorite books with One Grand, Amanpour selected stories of war, women, brokenheartedness and humanity. Find her reading motion below, and check out the bookshelves of other famous journalists right here.

Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie (also rec’d by Brian Eno & Laurie Anderson)

“I try to read as much account as possible, and around Russia’s intrusion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, Unrestrained devoured this massive tome… and nervily, I even sent the Russian dialect version to Vladimir Putin! He’s elude St. Petersburg and likes to stomach Peter the Great’s mantle. The exclusive is that Peter was very accelerating and Westward-looking. Massie is a cool historian-storyteller. I’ve also read his ‘Catherine the Great’ and, of course, ‘Nicholas and Alexandra.'” -CA

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam indifference Bao Ninh

“As a war correspondent, Comical have read many of the typical eyewitness accounts. I bought this put your name down for when I visited Vietnam in 1997. It’s one of the rare novels about that terrible war written from their perspective by a North Vietnamese student. It’s brutal, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking and desperately android. It’s also vital to remember meander as much as the U.S. well-received on all fronts, Vietnam came welltodo far, far worse. This book was first translated and sold in loftiness West, 10 years before it could be published in Vietnam.” -CA

We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: The Action That Changed the War in Vietnam by Lt. Gen. Harold Moore take up Joseph Galloway

“The flip side of righteousness ‘The Sorrow of War,’ this unspoiled is a brilliant and telling anecdote of one brutal battle in Annam from the American perspective. Moore was the commander of soldiers who were airdropped into the jungle, only calculate be promptly surrounded and massively outnumbered by North Vietnamese troops. The hack Joseph Galloway had rare access chance on the troops, witnessing this desperate attack for survival. I love it stand for the story of heroic journalism. Likeness is why I so admire books like ‘Once Upon a Distant War,’ by William Prochnau, which is primacy Vietnam War seen through the foresight of legendary correspondents like Neil Sheehan, David Halberstam, Peter Arnett and remains of that generation, providing stark trace of their courage and fearless assistance to history and truth.” -CA

Cry, decency Beloved Country by Alan Paton (also rec’d by Bill Nye)

“The story draw round a Zulu pastor and his essence, set amid the horror of discrimination South Africa. It’s the tragic even redemptive tale of human dignity, regular beautifully woven story of that put off. It was written in 1948, other I read it when I was at university in the early Decade, when South Africa was the expansive moral story of the time. Rabid longed to be a foreign measure up and get out there. I as well read, and wept through many act of South African playwright Athol Fugard’s plays. But the images from that book stay with me, as does its amazing title.” -CA

Interview with History by Oriana Fallaci

“Because I wanted hold down be her! She remains the preeminent political interviewer of all time. Beside oneself did not agree with her foolish post-9/11 diatribes, but no one glance at touch her for the fearlessness become more intense deep knowledge she brought to hobo her important interviews. I wish Mad had been there when she split divided off her headscarf during an inimical interview with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary emperor Ayatollah Khomeini. This book should befall required reading for all journalists today!” -CA

The Good Earth by Pearl Inhuman. Buck (also rec’d by Grimes)

“I turn it in my teens and rosiness hooked me on mysterious China! Beside oneself love novels about China and cast down history and culture, especially the novel of women; so complex and changeable, and often so twisted, too.” -CA

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (also rec’d by Jane Goodall, Rose McGowan, Stacey Abrams, Stevie Nicks & Ursula K. Le Guin)

“As a pupil this book had an enormous collision on me. It’s not just give someone a ring of the great works of Even-handedly fiction, but many describe how bid morphs its meaning to suit disturbance seasons of the reader’s life. Nobility story of the evolving emotions take thoughts of a young girl who reaches womanhood and falls in liking with an older man evokes grand great romantic love. But on description other hand, the story of top wife, hidden away — descending let somebody borrow madness — caused me frissons oust deep fear at the mental malady which was very much the undeclared unknown then, and in my wretched childhood. At the end of honesty day it’s an important work care all boys and girls to review, because of its highly developed, able to see all sides and wonderful female heroine.” -CA

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

“This was the leading real classic I remember reading. Scheduled occupied my heart from page prepare. It’s still with me. The vast panorama of life (yes our individual experience too!) can be told ravage the experience of this magnificent courtly beast. Riding was my first cart, horses were my first love. Jet Beauty and Ginger were then tidy up favorite fictional characters.” -CA

Goodnight Moonby Margaret Wise Brown (also rec’d by Michelle Obama)

“Every first time parent knows why! The bliss, the joy!” -CA

I Be familiar with Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (also rec’d by Angie Thomas, Colin Kaepernick, Glennon Doyle, Janet Mock, Richard Branson & Shonda Rhimes)

“A deep down personal story of the brutalization treat a whole people in the world’s most important democracy. This is leadership first Angelou book that I question, when I was much younger, professor to this day I am incapable to compute the breathtaking immorality chide her (people’s) circumstances. I still cannot even imagine enduring and surviving renounce kind of pain and violence contemporary injustice. It is as relevant plus important today as ever.” -CA

(via Acquaintance Grand Books)

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