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Travels with Margaret Thatcher (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 750
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Travels with Margaret Thatcher (Hardcover)
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List price R634
Loot Price R475
Discovery Miles 4 750
You Save R159 (25%)
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A Journey with Margaret Thatcher is an extraordinary insider's
account of British foreign policy under Margaret Thatcher by one of
her key advisers. Providing a closeup view of the Iron Lady in
action, former high-ranking diplomat Robin Renwick examines her
diplomatic successes - including the defeat of aggression in the
Falklands, what the Americans felt to be the excessive influence
she exerted on Ronald Reagan, her special relationship with Mikhail
Gorbachev and contribution to the ending of the Cold War, the
Anglo-Irish agreement, her influence with de Klerk in South Africa
and relationship with Nelson Mandela - and what she herself
acknowledged as her spectacular failure in resisting German
reunification. He describes at first hand her often turbulent
relationship with other European leaders and her arguments with her
Cabinet colleagues about European monetary union (in which regard,
he contends, her arguments have stood the test of time better and
are highly relevant to the crisis in the eurozone today). Finally,
the book tells of her bravura performance in the run up to the Gulf
War, her calls for intervention in Bosnia and the difficulties she
created for her successor. While her faults were on the same scale
as her virtues, Margaret Thatcher succeeded in her mission to
restore Britain's standing and influence, in the process becoming a
cult figure in many other parts of the world.
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