Used book – Le monde est mon métier, Jean Lacouture, Bernard Guetta

One lived through and covered decolonisation, the other the end of communism. Witnesses and, often, players in the two historical upheavals that shaped the present day, Jean Lacouture and Bernard Guetta here confront their hopes and memories, their passions and their disappointments. From Hanoi to Algiers, from Warsaw to Moscow, in agreement or disagreement, they bring to life the great moments of the post-war era before analysing the present, this "landscape after the battle". With them, we meet Nasser and Jaruzelski, Ho Chi Minh and Reagan, Gorbachev and Mitterrand, Kuron and Ben Bella, dissidents and fedayeen... Without embellishment, they recount how they reported what they saw, the responsibilities that weighed on them, their commitments and the immense difficulty of journalism, this profession of bridging worlds and cultures. This dual fresco thus sheds light on the behind-the-scenes of information. Can everything be said? At every moment? Should it be? Can one announce what one suspects but is not yet proven? Take up a cause? Draw hasty conclusions? To what extent can a journalist, as they did, interpret an event and not just photograph it? Le monde est mon métier (The World Is My Profession) is the true story of the last half-century. It is the sound and the fury of history revisited by two journalists whose lucidity does not extinguish their enthusiasm. From the rice paddies of Indochina in February 1945 to the stands of the Rugby World Cup in September 2007, Jean Lacouture had one of the longest and most diverse journalistic careers of his generation.