Summary
Lord Carrington was Margaret Thatcher’s Foreign Secretary when the Argentinians invaded the Falklands in 1982. Absent in Israel on the eve of the invasion, he promptly resigned since it was, he said, a point of honour. He is seen by many today as the last of his breed in politics, an honourable man committed to public service.
The descendant of a famous banking family, Carrington served as a minister in every Conservative government from Churchill to Thatcher. In this full biography, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780670916467 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0670916463 |
| Author: | Christopher Lee |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 872g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 162mm x 49mm |
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Clear and fair – Robert Salisbury * The Spectator *
[An] account of such a fascinating life – Rachel Sylvester * The Times *
Lee’s biography … is hugely enlivened by the fact that its subject, who died this year at the age of 99, was a superb gossip and passed his board of vignettes to Lee – Dominic Lawson * The Sunday Times *
Portrays a rounded picture of one of the most admirable of 20th-century statesman and of the political background against which he trod his honourable path * Country Life *
About The Author
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee began this book while Quatercentenary Research Fellow at Emmanuel College Cambridge where he also edited Winston Churchill’s A History of the English-speaking Peoples and where he wrote his award-winning BBC Radio 4 history of Britain, This Sceptred Isle. He lives in Kent and aboard a restored sloop which he sails from the Beaulieu River.
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