Author: Richard Howard Stafford CrossmanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780749307509
Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Crossman Diaries
Author: Richard Howard Stafford CrossmanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780749307509
Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman
Author: Richard Howard Stafford CrossmanPublisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
The Crossman Diaries
Author: Richard Howard Stafford CrossmanPublisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Crossman diaries
Author: Anthony HOWARDCrossman
Author: Anthony HowardPublisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This is the first biography of Crossman and its author has had access to the subject's private papers. Both Crossman's personal life and political carrer are scrutinized by the mind of an experienced political commentator. It is shown how a matrimonial entanglement wrecked Crossman's chances of becoming an Oxford don and made him turn to politics. And indeed Crossman's ambivalent attitude to politics is revealed in his diaries.
The Benn Diaries
Author: Tony BennPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446493733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events, arguments and personal reflections throughout Benn's long and remarkable career as a leading politician. The narrative starts with Benn as a schoolboy and takes the reader through his youthful wartime experiences as a trainee pilot, his nervous excitement as a new MP during Clement Atlee's premiership and the tribulations of Labour in the 1950s, when the Conservatives were in firm control. It ends with the Tories again in power, but on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's fall, while Tony Benn is on a mission to Baghdad before the impending Gulf War. Over the span of fifty years, the public and private turmoil in British and world politics is recorded as Benn himself moves from wartime service to become the baby of the House, Cabinet Minister, and finally the Commons' most senior Labour Member.
Force Recon Diary, 1969
Author: Major Bruce H. NortonPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 039917771X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Elite and highly trained, the 3d Force Recon's eight-man teams were assigned to obtain vital information about NVA operations. Alone, the men of these small teams were sent behind enemy lines, where they all knew that a single mistake could cost everyone their lives. United States Navy Hospital Corpsman Bruce Norton was the only navy corpsman to act as a Marine Force Recon Team Leader. In Force Recon Diary, 1969 Doc Norton chronicles his life, mission by mission, with the 3d Force Recon in the DMZ and the A Shau Valley. He describes the tense patrols, the supreme courage, the sacrifices—in ambushes and hot landing zones—that made this courageous company one of only two Marine units during the entire Vietnam War to receive the United States Army's Valorous Unit Citation.
New Fabian Essays
Author: Richard Howard Stafford CrossmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic policy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Assassin's Cloak
Author: Irene TaylorPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838852921
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane. Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.
Basil Hume: The Monk Cardinal
Author: Anthony HowardPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0755361598
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Following Cardinal Basil Hume's death on 17 June 1999, The Times concluded his obituary with a remarkable accolade: 'Few churchman in this century, inside or outside the Catholic Church, have died more deeply loved.' Basil Hume served as Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster for twenty-three years and his holiness and wisdom made him an extraordinary leader. In this enthralling biography, Anthony Howard, who has had unique access to Cardinal Hume's private papers and the people who knew him best, traces his life, from his Newcastle upbringing through to his schooling at Ampleforth and his reign at Westminster, including his long and ultimately successful fight on behalf of the Maguire Seven and the Guildford Four.