john courcy ling (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Slight reading marks to cover. Message to previous owner signed by the author to title page. Julian Slade's Salad Days and Andrew Sinclair's Breaking of Bumbo inspire this frank account of Cambridge and the Royal Ulster Rifles in the fifties. Changing fashions in sex and society are noted with a sense of fun. There is also much material for the political scientist and the serious student of diplomacy, particularly the first full account of a mementous conversation between General de Gaulle and Christopher Soames in Paris on 4 Feburary 1969. The author is contemptuous of Harold Wilson, critical of Margaret Thatcher, suspicious of Tony Blair and respectful towards John Major. He has bet heavily on a Conservative victory in the May 1997 General Election at Ladbroke's odds of 5 to 2 against. He believes that the odds against the United Kingdom's joining the Single European Currency in January 1999 are very much shorter. Illustrated. 228 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Signed by Author(s).