Ten Days that Shook the World

The stirring eyewitness account of an epochal revolution.// By one of the great reporters of all time.// 'The authenticity of [John Reed's] writing on the revolution gained from its being a first-hand eyewitness account. Seen from the streets and barricades drawn from the meeting halls and fiery debates. Acute powers of observation aligned always with a sensitivity towards ordinary people. Not experts. . . . Ten Days That Shook the World . . . raised questions it carved out a kind of journalism that would allow the marginalised in society to be heard in their own voice. It inspired readers rebels revolutionaries.' - P. Sainath// '[John Reed] rushed into the centre of wars and revolutions strikes and demonstrations with the eye of a movie camera before there was one and the memory of a tape recorder before that existed. He made history come alive for the readers of popular magazines and impoverished radical monthlies.' - Howard Zinn