Stephen Harper |
Chief Foreign Correspondent For The Daily Express
Stephen Harper served as a coder aboard HMS Petard during the closing months of the war against Japan. Not till later did he learn about the role his ship had played in seizing the Enigma codes. After the war, he worked as a reporter on two provincial newspapers, before joining the Daily Express in 1950. He began his career as foreign correspondent in 1956 in New Delhi, and over the next two decades he reported from trouble spots around the world, before becoming chief foreign correspondent. A Fatal Obsession, his last book, recounts one of his early assignments: the ill-fated attempt by an all-women mountaineering expedition to conquer Cho Oyu in 1959.
