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Ever the Diplomat - Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin (Paperback)
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Ever the Diplomat - Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin (Paperback)
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List price R339
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You Save R43 (13%)
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In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard
Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world. In
1977 fresh-faced Oxford graduate Sherard Cowper-Coles entered the
hallowed portals of the Foreign Office. Over the next thirty years
he was invariably to be found at the frontline of international
diplomacy, either striding the corridors of power at Westminster or
jetting from one exotic location to the next. His tasks ranged from
the challenging to the bizarre - from speech writing for Margaret
Thatcher (who scrawled an emphatic 'NO!' over his first effort), to
hiding an embarrassing bobble hat from Robin Cook . With
recollections from the last three decades in international
politics, taking us right up to Cowper-Coles's posting to
Afghanistan, 'Ever the Diplomat' is a revealing and witty account
of a unique period in our history. Cowper-Coles reveals what went
on behind-the-scenes of Whitehall as we encounter a swindler
impersonating Liberian President Charles Taylor, the young,
idealistic leader of Syria Bashar al-Assad and Tony Blair in his
boxer shorts.
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