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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0297853341
- EAN
- 9780297853343
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary - 200 Years...
- Artist
- Douglas Hurd
- Brand
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- Colour
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- Book Title
- Choose Your Weapons : the British Foreign Secretary-200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, The Limited
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- General, International Relations / General, Political
- Item Weight
- 26.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Orion Publishing Group, The Limited
ISBN-10
0297853341
ISBN-13
9780297853343
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109283507
Product Key Features
Book Title
Choose Your Weapons : the British Foreign Secretary-200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, International Relations / General, Political
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
'Every so often in Choose Your Weapons the Foreign Office can be seen tryiing to match the means and ends of policy. The next such exercise must now be overdue.', 'Highly readable... I enjoyed Choose Your Weapons immensely, particularly the magnificently colourful account of the Bevin and Eden years... it is also a timely book... Any future foreign secretary would be well advised to read this engrossing book on their first day in office.', 'One of the great achievements of this thoughtful and elegant book is to emphasise the thread of continuity running through British foreign policy from the age of Napoleon to the cold war... a book of great authority and insight.', "One of the great achievements of this thoughtful and elegant book is to emphasise the thread of continuity running through British foreign policy from the age of Napoleon to the cold war... a book of great authority and insight" --Sunday Times, 'a highly readable fusion of archival scholarship and personal experience, mixing vivid portrayals of the personalities and private lives of their chosen protagonists with cool analysis of the policy choices they made', "Douglas Hurd has done the impossible...he has produced a pageturning book about the history of British foreign policy" --Independent, 'elegant, stimulating and shrewdly perceptive... David Cameron, would be well advised to read it and then pass his copy on to shadow foreign secretary William Hague.', "Hurd elegantly profiles eleven British foreign secretaries... Written with a lightness of touch despite its serious message, one only hopes David Miliband buys a copy" -- GQ, "Douglas Hurd has done the impossible...he has produced a pageturning book about the history of British foreign policy" —Independent, "Hurd elegantly profiles eleven British foreign secretaries... Written with a lightness of touch despite its serious message, one only hopes David Miliband buys a copy" — GQ, 'Hurd elegantly profiles eleven British foreign secretaries... Written with a lightness of touch despite its serious message, one only hopes David Miliband buys a copy.', 'Although ostensibly a work of history [Douglas Hurd] neatly comments, by allusion and implication, on the current state of foreign affairs in Britain.', 'Hurd brings forward the arguments from history to consider the role of diplomacy in the modern world, and how a British government has to balance the interests of the nation with the ideals which its leaders and its people prefer.', 'full of wry, unillusioned wisdom. There are some delicious apercus... All Douglas Hurd's characters are portrayed sympathetically, even when they fail.', 'this elegant examination of the contrasting strands of British foreign policiy from the Napoleonic wars to the Suez debacle... is an entertaining book, enriched by the insights of an experienced practitioner.', 'it is Hurd's own viewpoint - as a longtime occupant of the Foreign Secretary's awe-inspring room- that gives this book the sort of insider perspective that Roy Jenkins gave to his life of Churchill.', "One of the great achievements of this thoughtful and elegant book is to emphasise the thread of continuity running through British foreign policy from the age of Napoleon to the cold war... a book of great authority and insight" —Sunday Times, 'That Douglas Hurd was once Foreign Secretary lends piquancy to his elegant account of that office... a very canny, diplomatic book.', 'Douglas Hurd has done the impossible...he has produced a page-turning book about the history of British foreign policy.', 'His entertaining new book, Choose Your Weapons, looks at the lives and impact of British Foreign Secretaries from Canning and Castlereagh in the first decades of the 19th century to Eden and Bevin in the middle of the 20th'
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
327.41
Synopsis
The great office of Foreign Secretary, its conflicts and its personalities from the Napoleonic era to the present day., The argument between the noisy popular liberal interventionist approach and the more conservative diplomatic approach concentrating on cooperation between other nations has run for two centuries, and is at the heart of heated discussion on both sides of the Atlantic today. Hurd concentrates on personalities and circumstances. He begins with the dramatic antagonism after Waterloo between Canning and Castlereaghthe last occasion on which ministerial colleagues fought a duel. A generation later comes Palmerston vs Aberdeen, from which Palmerston, the noisy interventionist, emerged the victor. Salisbury and then Edward Grey wrestled with the same dilemma in the context of imperialism and the European balance of power. Finally Eden and Bevin, from wholly different backgrounds, combined with the Americans to create a postwar compromise, which served its purpose for half a century, but is coming apart today as the old questions resurface in new and savage forms in an era of terrorism and racial conflict.", The argument between the noisy popular liberal interventionist approach and the more conservative diplomatic approach concentrating on cooperation between other nations has run for two centuries, and is at the heart of heated discussion on both sides of the Atlantic today. Hurd concentrates on personalities and circumstances. He begins with the dramatic antagonism after Waterloo between Canning and Castlereagh--the last occasion on which ministerial colleagues fought a duel. A generation later comes Palmerston vs Aberdeen, from which Palmerston, the noisy interventionist, emerged the victor. Salisbury and then Edward Grey wrestled with the same dilemma in the context of imperialism and the European balance of power. Finally Eden and Bevin, from wholly different backgrounds, combined with the Americans to create a post-war compromise, which served its purpose for half a century, but is coming apart today as the old questions resurface in new and savage forms in an era of terrorism and racial conflict.
LC Classification Number
DA45
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