THE HOSTAGE HANDBOOK by Anthony Grey

• These highly-charged diaries of the first western hostage of the modern era, are published verbatim for the first time to mark the fortieth anniversary of Anthony Grey’s release.
  
• Written secretly in shorthand, the diaries chronicle two years of solitary in the Beijing during the chaotic Cultural Revolution which led to three million deaths. 
  
• They describe the psychological battle for survival all hostages face – and show how keeping a diary can help overcome many kinds of hardship.
  
• Interspersed with present-day reflections on how the author sees the ordeal today and how the experience changed his life.

Publication: Tuesday 29 June 2010
ISBN (Hardcover) : 978-1-903571-61-3
ISBN (Paperback) : 978-1-903571-62-0
Price: £20.00 (Hardback) - £12.00 (Paperback)
Format: Hardcover and Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 150 x 230mm

"Grey's experience - through fear, false hope, deep depression, suicidal thoughts and outrage at the failure of the British government to secure his release - is painfully similar to those of his later colleagues in Beirut and Baghdad ... Mercifully he came home to sunlight and love - and lived on to work for the BBC and write exciting novels."

Robert Fisk - The Independent

"This real-time journal of two years captivity gives a vivid picture of the afflictions and frustrations he faced and the often mindless and inhumane behaviour of his captors .. But also reveals Tony's stubborn capacity for inventiveness and imagination, which created an inner space for his spirit's survival in spite of it all."

Sir John Weston, Britain's former ambassador to the UN and NATO