Simon Maier - The Other Side of History: A Unique View of Momentous Events from the Last 60 Years

2017 Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited and Simon Maier

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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Name(s): Maier, Simon. | Marshall Cavendish Editions, publisher.

Title: The other side of history : a unique view of momentous events from the last 60 years / Simon Maier.

Description: Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Edition, [2017]

Identifier(s): OCN 978256100 | eISBN: 978 981 4779 41 8

Subject(s): LCSH: History, Modern--20th century--Anecdotes. | History, Modern--21st century--Anecdotes.

Classification: DDC 909.82--dc23

Printed in Singapore by Markono Print Media Pte Ltd

This book is for my brother, Michael.

All the worlds a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts, ...

From As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII,
William Shakespeare

Subject: Thank you!

Hi Sarah,

Just got back to London from NY via a few days in Venice (my favourite city) and I wanted to drop you a quick mail to thank you very much for helping make my visit to the New York office so enjoyable. Obviously I had a great time with my grandfather and he always speaks volumes about you. I was really touched and the food so much! And all delicious. Thanks too for sorting out flights and everything else. Really appreciated.

I also wanted to thank you for sending the notes that Gramps had given me which Id left behind always doing that plus the photographs. The package beat me home. Hes very lucky to have you as a PA! But I think he knows that.

Not sure if I mentioned this to you or if he did, but I said to him that Id like to make what he told me into a book. If I can. I think I told you that Ive been writing a fair bit for several magazines now, as well as some websites, and thats all going very well. The stuff that he talked about where hed been in the world over the last sixty years, what hed seen, the history that hed witnessed all the moments in his life when hed been part of (or had been close to) events that have made it into the news and the history books. His memory was super good when we talked and, even though he referred to his notebooks and his photos, he was razor-sharp and could recall whole chunks of stuff.