Alan Johnston
Alan Johnston on the book that made him decide journalism was the career for him...
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
“It’s extraordinary; the politics and the story of the young George Orwell going off to fight for the Spanish Republic against the Fascists; putting his life on the line for something he really believed in. It’s a remarkable story n its own, but the power of the story and the politics: I just felt, when I read it, that from then on, journalism would be for me.”
