Think if the major news stories of the postwar era,

Think of the places: the D-Day beaches, Everest, Vietnam, Hollywood, Berlin, and Tiananmen Square. Reuters journalists were there.

Think of the personalities of the last sixty years: Nelson Mandela, Jackie Kennedy, Che Guevara, Idi Amin, Charles de Gaulle, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Margaret Thatcher. Reuters journalists met them.

Frontlines relates the personal stories of those correspondents who have found themselves in the most remarkable situations. What was it really like to tread on Chairman MaoÕs toes, meet Elvis, or report ringside from Muhammed Ali fight? How does it feel when, in the turmoil of post-colonial Africa, you hear someone being executed outside your prison cell, or, when reporting on the war in Yugoslavia, your jeep is taken out by a landmine?

Written by award-winning Reuters journalists Ð many of whom have gone on to achieve celebrity status Ð and supported by breathtaking photography, Frontline offers eyewitness accounts of the stories behind the pictures the world has seen, as well as providing a fascinating insight into the life of a foreign correspondent.

"This is eye witness history but something more Ð a personal group portrait by brave and committed journalists."

—Richard C. Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

"Much more than snapshots Ð these are the first drafts of history. This is journalism at its finest, the hallmark of the Reuters legend."

—Peter Sissons, broadcaster