Until his retirement at the end of 2016 Jeremy Thompson was one of the longest-serving journalists & news anchors in the UK During a forty-year career in television news Thompson gained a reputation as the consummate broadcaster latterly as the anchor of Sky News' early evening programme though as frequently broadcasting on location from the heart of the story Thompson worked for all the major news broadcasters in the UK the BBC ITV & finally Sky where he started as a foreign correspondent in 1993 He covered many of the most important news events of our time & reported from all over the world picking up countless awards for his work The first TV journalist to broadcast live as British peacekeeping forces arrived in Kosovo he also covered the first Gulf War & in 2003 anchored Sky News' coverage of the second Gulf War from Iraq There he presented every night for a month on the front line & was the first anchor to present from inside Baghdad He was also in South Africa to cover the death of Nelson Mandela & the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius This extraordinary book tells the life story of one of the nation's most popular broadcasters