HURD, Douglas .
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary 200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 2010.
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First Edition of Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary 200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure; Signed by Douglas Hurd in the Year of Publication
First edition of Douglas Hurd’s authoritative study of two centuries of British foreign policy leadership and diplomatic debate. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with maps, sketches, and photographs. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Douglas Hurd 13. 10." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written with Edward Young. Jacket design and illustration by Ghost.
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary—200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure by Douglas Hurd is a wide-ranging historical study of Britain’s foreign policy leadership from the early nineteenth century to the modern era. Drawing on his own experience as a former Foreign Secretary, Hurd combines archival research with personal insight to examine the personalities, crises, and diplomatic dilemmas that have shaped Britain’s role on the world stage. The book highlights moments of strategic brilliance as well as episodes of miscalculation, revealing foreign policy as a field defined as much by temperament and judgment as by ideology. Both analytical and reflective, it offers an engaging account of how individual statesmen have navigated war, empire, alliance, and decline across two centuries of British diplomacy.
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary 200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure.
$300.00
In Stock
