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19 produkter
Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs)
The Steadfast
Av Douglas Hurd
Häftad, 2018
102 kr
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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackElizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This book, by a senior politician who has spent …
Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs)
The Steadfast
Av Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2015
57 kr
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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulersElizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This book, by a senior politician who has spent significant periods of …
Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs)
The Steadfast
Av Douglas Hurd
Ljudbok, 2018
122 kr
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Elizabeth II: The Steadfast by Douglas Hurd, read by Jeremy Clyde. Elizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This book, by a senior politician who has spent …
Choose Your Weapons
The British Foreign Secretary
Av Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Noisy popular liberal interventionism? Or a more conservative, diplomatic approach concentrating on co-operation between nations? This is the debate that lies at the heart of modern politics and Hurd traces its most interesting and influential exponents. He starts with Canning and Castelreagh in …
Disraeli
or, The Two Lives
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century and a superb orator, writer and wit - but how much do we really know about the man behind the words? ''As Douglas Hurd and Edward Young point out in their splendidly written, finely judged and thoroughly persuasive …
Memoirs
Av Douglas Hurd
Häftad, 2004
382 kr
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Douglas Hurd retired as Foreign Secretary in 1995 after a distinguished career in Government spanning 16 years. As Secretary of State for Ireland, Home Secretary and then six years in the Foreign Office in Margaret Thatcher and John Major's administrations, he was at the very heart of modern …
Vote To Kill
Av Douglas Hurd
Häftad, 1999
252 kr
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Sir James Percival, a cool, world-weary veteran of Tory politics, finds himself with a small but workable majority after 7 years of Labour rule and might be forgiven for looking forward to a quiet life. But life, especially in politics, isn't like that. His 2nd wife Helena & disreputable son Antony …
Search For Peace
A Century of Peace Diplomacy
Av Douglas Hurd
Häftad, 1999
255 kr
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We live in a world of nation states, immortal and political entities that act as a focus for the loyalty of the citizen but cannot by themselves meet those citizens' needs. As the history of our own continent illustrates, a Europe of nation states has bred a Europe of endemic warfare. Such has been …
Robert Peel
A Biography
Av Douglas Hurd
Häftad, 2008
179 kr
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Life of one of the greatest British Prime Ministers - by an author who knows the scene from his years as a senior Minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our police force, which …
Disraeli
or, The Two Lives
Häftad, 2014
156 kr
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Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century and a superb orator, writer and wit - but how much do we really know about the man behind the words?'As Douglas Hurd and Edward Young point out in their splendidly written, finely judged and thoroughly persuasive book, …
Choose Your Weapons
The British Foreign Secretary
Av Douglas Hurd
Häftad, 2011
174 kr
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Noisy popular liberal interventionism? Or a more conservative, diplomatic approach concentrating on co-operation between nations? This is the debate that lies at the heart of modern politics and Hurd traces its most interesting and influential exponents.He starts with Canning and Castelreagh in …
Truth Game
Av Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2013
44 kr
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Somewhere in the Indian ocean a coup d''etat threatens a country to which Britain has treaty obligations. The Foreign Secretary has been killed in an aircrash: rather than remodel his government on the eve of an election the Prime Minister has promoted a senior and much respected backbencher. A …
Vote To Kill
Av Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Sir James Percival, a cool, world-weary veteran of Tory politics, finds himself with a small but workable majority after 7 years of Labour rule and might be forgiven for looking forward to a quiet life. But life, especially in politics, isn''t like that. His 2nd wife Helena & disreputable son …
Palace Of Enchantments
Av Stephen Lamport, Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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An ambitious Conservative Junior Minister, Edward Dunsford, seems to be doing all the right things in his bid to become Foreign Secretary. Until, that is, a moment''s sentimental weakness precipitates his career into chaos, his party into crisis and his own marriage onto the rocks. ''So skilfully …
Image in the Water
Av Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2012
86 kr
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After a narrow Labour Party victory that is dependent on Scottish Labour votes, the young, ambitious and right-wing Alcester sweeps in as Tory leader of the opposition. He has married the previous Prime Minister''s daughter, and when their baby boy is kidnapped in mysterious circumstances it leads …
Ten Minutes to Turn the Devil
Av Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2012
88 kr
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As an MP, Douglas Hurd would write a new short story every year during the summer Parliamentary recess. This collection comprises ten tales, including a moving account of a family in Bosnia (The Last Day of Summer), a caper about drugrunning off Florida (A Suitcase Between Friends), and a grimly …
Suitcase Between Friends
Av Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2013
88 kr
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Five hard-hitting short stories and a political essay inspired by Douglas Hurd''s visit to Sarajevo in 1992. All demonstrate preoccupations with the world tensions of the nineties, observed by Hurd''s acute political eye.
Shape of Ice
Av Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2013
88 kr
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Prime Minister Simon Russell's personal alarm clock is ticking away, while outside, beyond No. 10, prison riots, bombs in Ireland, corporate blackmail in China and civil unrest in Russia jostle for attention. From the smallest details of the PM's office to the global significance of an …
Robert Peel
A Biography
Av Douglas Hurd
E-bok, 2017
45 kr
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The life of one of the greatest British Prime Ministers - by an author who knows the scene from his years as a senior Minister in Margaret Thatcher''s Cabinet. Robert Peel (1788-1850), as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our …
