Diplomatic Tales

Author : Lewis Richard Luchs
Publisher : Lulu Publishing Services
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1483461726

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Diplomatic Tales by Lewis Richard Luchs Pdf

What is it like to be a diplomat in six far-flung nations? Lewis Richard Luchs gives you a behind-the-scenes look at life as a diplomat in this fascinating memoir about his career in the U.S. Foreign Service. He wore three hats at once in exotic Madagascar, witnessed a military coup d'etat in Mali, saw the creation of modern Singapore, felt the excitement of working in a France emerging from the self-isolation of the Gaullist era, participated in shaping Islamic Malaysia's future, and observed Australia's efforts to redefine itself in a new Asia. In sharing his challenges, sorrows, and joys, he answers questions such as: What do embassies do? What do diplomats do? What stresses are put on a diplomat's family? What is it like to face terrorist threats? Take a broader view of the world, find out what U.S. embassies do, and discover what life in the Foreign Service is like with Diplomatic Tales."

Author : William S Shepard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595391001

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Diplomatic Tales by William S Shepard Pdf

Shephard first regales us with true diplomatic experiences, from Saigon to Athens, in "Consular Tales." Then, in "Foreign Service Tales" short stories bring every part of an embassy to life. We meet ambassadors, consuls, political and economic officers being appointed, doing their jobs, falling in and out of love, and even committing murder.

Author : Doshi Kiran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, East Indian
ISBN : 8189975382

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Diplomatic Tales by Doshi Kiran Pdf

On Indian Foreign Service; in verse form.

Author : Henry Precht
Publisher : Williams & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1878853465

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A Diplomat's Progress by Henry Precht Pdf

"Sardonic insights and a lovely pen." Fred Emery, former Executive Editor, The Times, London. "Precht's stories about an American diplomat in the Middle East provide important background about America's present role and challenges in that crucial geography." Burton Gerber, Veteran CIA Officer in Eastern Europe and the Middle East "This is not a striped-pants world. Instead, these stories] illuminate a grittier side of embassy life with a wry sense of humor and a bit of an edge, not unlike the author himself."

Author : Julia Miles
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781903070956

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Ambassador's Wife's Tale by Julia Miles Pdf

A memoir of life as a British ambassador's wife amid the upheavals of the late 1960sThe year that Julia Miles got married and so became part of the British government's Foreign Office machine was a seminal year in world politics. 1968 saw the murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Baader-Meinhof gang introducing modern terrorism to Europe, and three hijackings launching a spate of terror in the air. Civil unrest by students in Paris and massive general strikes almost brought down the French government and a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in London against the Vietnam War ended in violence and injury. Her book is set against this background of insecurity and upheaval which has endured until the present. She describes some previously unknown terrorist incidents in such unlikely places as Luxembourg as well as documenting the breakdown in diplomatic relations and evacuation of Embassy staff from Libya following the shooting of British police officer Yvonne Fletcher. What is it like to produce and raise a family against a background of threat in Cyprus or privation in Saudi Arabia? How much does the Foreign Office do to protect its staff? Julia entertains and informs with a series of vignettes which throw light into previously unseen corners of Embassy life.

Author : K. Natwar Singh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789350298992

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Walking With Lions by K. Natwar Singh Pdf

The story goes, apocryphal perhaps, that one day the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, told his foreign minister that the country's name must be changed to Idi, and he should inform the UN and all other international bodies. A week passed. President Amin then summoned the minister and asked, 'Did you carry out my orders?' He replied saying that there was a problem. 'What problem?' the president inquired. 'Your Excellency, there is a country called Cyprus. The people are called Cypriots. If Uganda were to be called Idi, we would be called Idiots.' There are few leaders that K. Natwar Singh, in a diplomatic career spanning more than three decades, has not known - and fewer still about whom he has no story to tell. In Walking with Lions: Tales from a Diplomatic Past, Singh puts together fifty episodes that entertain, inform and illuminate. Featured here is Indira Gandhi as a statesman and friend, alongside other renowned figures such as Fidel Castro, Haile Selassie and Zia-ul-Haq. Singh analyses some personalities with disarming candour, among them Morarji Desai and Lord Mountbatten; at other times, his admiration for leaders like C. Rajagopalalchari and Nelson Mandela shines through. In these pages you will also find a rare, fascinating glimpse of Godman Chandraswami and his cohort Mamaji, and their interaction with a surprisingly submissive Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher. Besides, there are short tributes to artists, writers, cricketers and film stars, like M.F. Husain, Nadine Gordimer, Don Bradman and Dev Anand. Recounted with empathy and humour, this collection of stories from contemporary history is a warm, unaffected and reassuring reminder that the great too can be as fallible as the rest of us.

Author : Iain Spragg
Publisher : Portico
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781849941891

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London's Strangest Tales: Historic Royal Palaces by Iain Spragg Pdf

London's Royal Palaces are still some of the most visited places in England. A great deal of their official histories are well known. But London's Strangest Tales: Historic Royal Palaces reveals the bizarre, funny and surreal events and episodes that have occurred over the centuries on the grounds of these beautiful buildings. It gives an alternative history: from the wandering inebriated zebras at the Tower of London, the cricket ball that probably killed a king, and the mystery of Kew's disappearing mosque. This is a wonderful collection for anyone with an interest in the history and heritage of our palaces and in London life generally.

Author : Matthew Parris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780241957097

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The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase by Matthew Parris Pdf

The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan desert fully suited and with a mysteriously enormous suitcase? Or the horse they gave Prime Minister John Major in Turkmenistan - which hapless embassy officials had to rescue from the clutches of the Moscow railway? These and other 'funnies', as they are known in Whitehall, are included in Matthew Parris' and and Adnrew Bryson's glorious new volume of not so diplomatic writing, which accompanies a new BBC Radio 4 series is a follow up to their acclaimed collection of ambassadors' final despatches, Parting Shots. Drawn from Freedom of Information requests and previously overlooked Valedictories these startling despatches throw a revealing light on how the British have viewed the world - and, unwittingly perhaps, on how the world has viewed the British. Praise for Parting Shots: 'Parting Shots is unbuttoned, indiscreet and very funny' Yorkshire Post 'Fascinating, if sometimes uncomfortable, reading' Financial Times 'Very funny' Guardian After working in the Foreign Office then serving as a Conservative MP, Matthew Parris joined The Times in 1988. He writes two weekly columns for The Times and one for the Spectator, and in 2011 won the Best Columnist Award at the British Press awards. His acclaimed autobiography Chance Witness was published by Penguin in 2003. He is a frequent broadcaster. Andrew Bryson is a radio journalist working in the BBC's Business and Economic Unit. He frequently works as a producer on Radio 4's Today programme and on Radio 5 Live.

Author : Cherry Denman
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848543515

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Diplomatic Incidents by Cherry Denman Pdf

Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world's most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven languages. While some aspects of living abroad will always puzzle her - saunas, tofu and circumcision, to name just three - she wouldn't have missed it for anything. Lessons learnt range from the practical (possessions belong either in the suitcase or the skip: storage is for wimps), to the truly useful (how to avoid the drinks party bore) and the truly bizarre (the episode with the goat . . .). Charming and witty, these hilarious tales of global misunderstsanding are illustrated with over seventy original line drawings.

Author : J. E. Conner
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Uncle Sam Abroad by J. E. Conner Pdf

It is the opinion of Professor Loyal of the University of ---- that the average American, to put it bluntly, knows little or nothing about Uncle Sam’s foreign service. He is also of the opinion that the time is at hand when the aforesaid average American must know more about it, owing to the growth in importance of our foreign relations, both politically and commercially.' -an excerpt This novel 'Uncle Sam Abroad' by JE Conner is an analysis of the American foreign policy in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This novel raises many important questions about American Colonialism.

Author : Richard L. Jackson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761867876

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The Incidental Oriental Secretary and Other Tales of Foreign Service by Richard L. Jackson Pdf

This memoir attempts to capture the humor and sheer incongruity of working across cultures in an international career spanning diplomacy and education. Written in a light hearted tone, it also delves into tragic consequences in countries such as Somalia, Libya and Greece. While critical in many respects of US foreign policy, it also hopes to attract adventurous young men and women of today's generation to possible careers in diplomacy. The author uses humor and anecdote to highlight the monumental changes in the world environment and practice of diplomacy in the short space of a single career. The book features cover art and interior sketches by Eliza Jackson.

Author : Tom Goldstein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0231118333

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Killing the Messenger by Tom Goldstein Pdf

An anthology of some of the most provocative writing that has been done in this century about the press, this volume includes articles by Walter Lippman, Clifton Daniel, John Hersey, Louis Brandeis, Upton Sinclair, and others.

Author : Brigid Keenan
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848546103

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Diplomatic Baggage by Brigid Keenan Pdf

When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together - with most things going horribly awry while being obliged to keep the straightest face and put their best feet forward. For he was a diplomat - and Brigid found herself the smiling face of the European Union in locales ranging from Kazakhstan to Trinidad. Finding herself miserable for the first time in a career into which many would have long ago thrown the towel, she found herself asking (during a farewell party for the Papal Nuncio): was it worth it? As this stream of it-really-happened-to-me stories shows, it most certainly was - if only for our vicarious bewilderment at how exactly you throw a buffet dinner during a public mourning period in Syria, remain viable as a fashion journalist when taste-wise you are three seasons out of it and geographically a world away, make people believe that there are actually terrible things going on in paradise, be a good mother and save some of the finest architecture in Damascus and Brussels from demolition - seemingly all simultaneously.

Author : Isabella Lazzarini
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Medieval Eur
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198727415

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Communication and Conflict by Isabella Lazzarini Pdf

Diplomacy has never been a politically-neutral research field, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the backgrounds of wars and revolutions. In the nineteenth century, diplomacy was integral to the grand narrative of the building of the modern 'nation-State'. This is the first overall study of diplomacy in Early Renaissance Italy since Garrett Mattingly's pioneering work in 1955. It offers an innovative approach to the theme of Renaissance diplomacy, sidestepping the classic dichotomy between medieval and early modern, and re-considering the whole diplomatic process without reducing it to the 'grand narrative' of the birth of resident embassies. Communication and Conflict situates and explains the growth of diplomatic activity from a series of perspectives - political and institutional, cognitive and linguistic, material and spatial - and thus offers a highly sophisticated and persuasive account of causation, change, and impact in respect of a major political and cultural form. The volume also provides the most complete account to date of how it was that specifically Italian forms of diplomacy came to play such a central role, not only in the development of international relations at the European level, but also in the spread and application of humanism and of the new modes of political thinking and political discussion associated with the generations of Machiavelli and Guicciardini.

Author : Max W. Kraus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015015463691

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They All Come to Geneva and Other Tales of a Public Diplomat by Max W. Kraus Pdf