Noel Barber was a British

United Kingdom

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 novelist and journalist. Many of his novels, considered exotic, are about his experiences as leading foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

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. He had two brothers, Kenneth, a banker and Anthony Barber, Baron Barber

Anthony Barber, Baron Barber

Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician who served as a member of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords....

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Most notably he reported from Morocco

Morocco

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, where he was stabbed five times,. In October 1956, Barber survived a gunshot wound to the head by a Soviet sentry in Hungary

Hungary

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 during the Hungarian revolution

Hungarian Revolution

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Novels

• Cities (1951) (with Rupert Croft-Cooke
  Rupert Croft-Cooke
  Rupert Croft-Cooke was an English biographer and author of fiction and non-fiction.He also published detective stories under the pseudonym of Leo Bruce.-Life:...
  
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• Tanamera: A Novel of Singapore (1981)
• A Farewell to France (1983)
• A Woman of Cairo (1984)
• Sakkara (1985)
• The Other Side of Paradise (1986)
• The Weeping and the Laughter (1988)
• The Daughters of the Prince (1990)

Non fiction

• Fires of Spring (1952)
• Strangers in the Sun (1955)
• A Handful of Ashes: A Personal Testament of the Battle of Budapest (1957)
• The White Desert (1958)
• Distant Places (1959)
• The Flight of the Dalai Lama (1960)
• Life with Titina (1961)
• Adventures At Both Poles (1963)
• Conversations with Painters (1964)
• The Black Hole of Calcutta (1965)
• Let's Visit the USA (1967)
• Sinister Twilight: The Fall And Rise Again of Singapore (1968)
• From the Land of Lost Content (1969)
• The War of the Running Dogs: How Malaya Defeated the Communist Guerrillas, 1948-60 (1971)
• The Sultans (1973)
• Lords of the Golden Horn: From Suleiman the Magnificent to Kamal Atatürk (1973)
• Seven Days of Freedom: Hungarian Uprising, 1956 (1974)
• The Week France Fell: June 10-16, 1940 (1976)
• The Natives Were Friendly So We Stayed the Night (1977)
• The Singapore Story (1978)
• Fall of Shanghai: Communist Takeover in 1949 (1979)