On the Ground: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent

National Bestseller
Nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

A powerful memoir revealing the pressures, joys, and traumas of witnessing history up close and personal, from one of Canada’s most prominent and decorated foreign correspondents.

Brian Stewart is a trusted voice who brought stories of the world home to Canadians for decades on CBC’s The National.

He saw it all firsthand—triumph and ecstasy; carnage and unspeakable suffering—and bore the responsibility of sh...