Deluge
«Sir Kennedy Trevaskis had an outlook on Africa and the Middle East that differed radically from that of many of his contemporaries... His unvarnished autobiography gives insight into the complex and dangerous problems of the British Empire, especially in the Middle East from the 1940s to the mid-1960s.»
W.M Roger Louis
Sir Kennedy Trevaskis was the last High Commissioner of South Arabia - a role he held from 1963-1965, which provided the pinnacle of his career and yet also his ultimate failure. Trevaskis's imperial credentials were impeccable. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- I.B. Tauris
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 352
- ISBN
- 9781786735782
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
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«Sir Kennedy Trevaskis had an outlook on Africa and the Middle East that differed radically from that of many of his contemporaries... His unvarnished autobiography gives insight into the complex and dangerous problems of the British Empire, especially in the Middle East from the 1940s to the mid-1960s.»
W.M Roger Louis
«This memoir is monumental, not in the Nietzschean sense of the monumental narrative that can inspire action, but in the sense of a history that will stand as a monument to a vanished world.»
Dublin Review of Books