Jacques Bekaert was born in Belgium in May 1940. As a journalist, he worked for the Belgian radio and TV, Le Monde, the Far Eastern service of the BBC, and the Jane Defense Journal. As a diplomat, he was posted in Cambodia and Thailand. Composer, his music has been performed in the USA, Europe, and Asia. He is also a writer of fiction.
A Wonderful World
Memoirs
by Jacques Bekaert

A Wonderful World
Memoirs
by Jacques Bekaert
Published Sep 28, 2019
405 Pages
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Book Details
From a Belgian childhood under Nazi occupation, to a Cambodia ravaged by war and the bloody reign of the Khmer Rouge, the author has been travelling to places where few tourists were going at the time: Hanoi and Beijing emerging from war or radical Maoism, Cuba after the collapse of the USSR, Nepal abandoning an old monarchy for radical communism or a divided Germany haunted by the criminal follies of Hitler and the Holocaust. The KGB tried to recruit him. He has lived in Belgium, New York, Phnom Penh and today Bangkok.