Parting Shots
$33.35
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2011
Summary
Parting Shots: Wit, Venom, and Wisdom from Departing Ambassadors
The ambassadors’ letters you were never meant to see. Up till 2006, a British Ambassador leaving his post was encouraged to write what was known as a valedictory despatch, to be circulated to a small number of influential people in government. This was the parting shot, an opportunity to offer a personal and frank view of the host country, the manners and morals of its people, their institutions, the state of their coo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780670919291 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0670919292 |
| Author: | Matthew Parris |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Matthew Parris
Matthew Parris had a short career in the Foreign Office. He was a Conservative MP from 1979 to 1986, since when he has worked as a journalist. He won the Orwell Prize for Journalism, and his acclaimed autobiography Chance Witness was published by Penguin in 2002. He divides his time between Derbyshire (where his old constituency was situated) and east London.
Andrew Bryson is a radio journalist working in the BBC’s Business and Economics Unit. He lives in Surrey.
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