Sherard Cowper-Coles

Ever the Diplomat (eBook, ePUB)

Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For over 30 years Sherard Cowper-Coles was on the diplomatic front line in a distinguished Foreign Office career that took him from the corridors of power in Whitehall to a string of high-profile posts across the globe.

Entering the Foreign Office fresh from Oxford in 1977, he enjoyed a meteoric rise with postings in Beirut, Alexandria and Cairo, Washington, and Paris, and working on Hong Kong, punctuated with spells in London, where the young diplomat had a baptism of fire writing foreign affairs speeches for Geoffrey Howe and Margaret Thatcher.

In 1999, he was made Principal Private Secretary to the irascible Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, providing the book with some of its most hilarious sequences, and his glittering career culminated in a succession of ambassadorial posts as Our Man in Israel, Saudi Arabia and finally Afghanistan.

'Ever the Diplomat' is his revealing, passionate and witty account of half a lifetime in diplomacy, which is set to become a classic of the genre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007436026
• Artikelnr.: 37997858

Autorenporträt

Sherard Cowper-Coles is one of the most respected authorities on foreign affairs in the country. He has held a string of high-profile diplomat posts, both in the UK and overseas, most recently as the British Ambassador to Kabul and the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.