Ever the Diplomat - Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin

Informationen zum Autor Sherard Cowper-Coles was born in Kent and educated at New Beacon School, Tonbridge School and Hertford College, Oxford where he read Classics. He entered the Foreign Office in 1977, where he enjoyed a 30-year career, holding a string of high-profile overseas diplomatic postings in Beirut, Alexandria and Cairo, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Washington and Paris. His first book, Cables from Kabul, chronicling his diplomatic tenure in Afghanistan and Pakistan, was published to great acclaim. Klappentext In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world. Zusammenfassung In this entertaining and engaging memoir! former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world.

Product details

• Authors: Sherard Cowper Coles, Sherard Cowper-Coles, Cowper-Coles Sherard
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.03.2013
• EAN: 9780007436019
• ISBN: 978-0-00-743601-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: HarperPress
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, Memoirs, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Diplomacy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs