The Sunday Times Investigates Reporting That Made History

by Spence, Madeleine; Times Books

• ISBN13: 9780008468316
• ISBN10: 0008468311
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-01-01
• Publisher: Times Books UK

Summary

The Sunday Times national newspaper is famous for its insight investigative journalist team. This book profiles the stories from the team that has had the most impact from the Thalidomide case to the Coronavirus investigation.

News-breaking stories as told from The Sunday Times with commentary setting each story in context. These stories are a result of often years of work and painstaking investigations. The reports ripped away shrouds of secrecy and revealed the truth.

Investigations covered include;
* Discovering Soviet defector Kim Philby's role in MI6
* Unraveling the official Bloody Sunday report
* Revealing the secret manufacture of nuclear weapons by Israel
* Road to Ground Zero
* FIFA cash for votes scandal

Full text as it appeared in the newspaper along with updated editorial comments.

Author Biography

Madeleine Spence is Executive Editor at The Sunday Times. The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in 1785.

Table of Contents

TOC - NOT YET FINAL
 

• 1960
  • THE THIRD MAN: THE TALE OF KIM PHILBY The Soviet double agent inside British Intelligence

 

• 1970
  • THE THALIDOMIDE SCANDAL The dangerous wonder drug
  • BLOODY SUNDAY The 13 civilians killed by British paratroopers
  • THE TURKISH AIRLINES DISASTER The cover-up that caused an aeroplane crash

 

• 1980
  • COLONEL GADDAFI AND THE MINERS’ STRIKEThe link between a military dictator and Arthur Scargill
  • ISRAEL’S SECRET NUCLEAR WEAPONS The proof that Israel has the atom bomb

 

• 1990
  • CORRUPTION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS The Members of Parliament willing to ask questions for money

 

• • TRACING THE 9/11 ATTACKERS The trail of the plane hijackers

 

• 2010
  • THE FIFA FILES The backroom deals that bought Qatar the World Cup
  • SAS WAR CRIMES SCANDAL xxxxxxx

 

• 2020
  • PREPARING FOR A PANDEMIC The Covid-19 chaos at the heart of government