An insider's account of the Cold War as seen by a key diplomat abroad and in London. A privileged view of work that won the Cold War, written with humour and insight.
Memoirs of a British diplomat at the centre of history. The stories from a senior diplomat who witnessed and helped to shape events in the Cold War, the Falklands and Northern Ireland. Includes his disagreements with Margaret Thatcher in diplomacy and tales of living in Moscow with his wife at the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
