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Diplomatic Moves - A Wife in the Overseas Service (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Diplomatic Moves - A Wife in the Overseas Service (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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What is a wife's role in the modern diplomatic service? Does she
follow her husband wherever his career and the needs of the service
take him, as soldier's wives were once said to follow the drum? Is
this role a career in itself - supporting her husband in his
embassy or high commission and carrying out social duties? And all
this against the backdrop of a security provided by a great power?
Sally James's account is very different. It concerns the changing
role of spouses in the Diplomatic Service, with new-found
recognition of the vital part they play, and appreciation of the
wish of many spouses for freedom to pursue independent careers. The
author and her husband were posted to seven different locations:
New Zealand, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Guyana, Turkey, Ghana,
Singapore and Barbados. Her memoirs offer and account of the
interest and excitement of foreign travel, but also tell of the
difficulties of being separated from families, the poor
communications and physical dangers. This book should be of
interest to those concerned with life in the Diplomatic Service,
and what it was like for the spouses and families who are rarely
mentioned in official histories.
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