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Lost Horizons: A Foreign Correspondent's Extraordinary Life Story

Lost Horizons: A Foreign Correspondent's Extraordinary Life Story

Gray, Denis D.

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0804858594
ISBN13: 9780804858595
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A CIA-orchestrated escape through the Iron Curtain launched Denis D. Gray into a life on the front lines of history.

Born Zdenek Mecir in communist Czechoslovakia, Gray's dramatic flight to freedom set the stage for a legendary career as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. Over five decades reporting from nearly 40 countries, he covered the Vietnam War, the fall of Phnom Penh and Cambodia's Killing Fields, and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In Lost Horizons, Gray recounts encounters with kings, killers and celebrities, alongside brushes with death, betrayal, love and friendships forged in war. Structured thematically rather than chronologically, this deeply personal memoir captures both the violence of global conflict and the fragile humanity within it.

Drawing on eight decades of upheaval and change, Gray reflects on authoritarianism, the decline of journalism, climate change, and the shifting moral landscape of our time, while wrestling with his own longing for peace and belonging.

Lost Horizons is a vivid account of breathtaking change across the world--and of one man's search for a horizon that never quite stops moving.

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