HOME , LORD: - Letters to a Grandson

Collins 1983 First VG/VG some edgewear 151pp 9 x 6 365g ¶ Lord Home writes to a Grandson recently awakened to curiosity about what has been going on in the world for the last half century. Letters begin with the authors' recollection of the elder statesmen he met as a boy and heard talking to his father about world affairs, these include Lord Grey, Lord Rosebery and Lord Robert Cecil. Expressed in the simplest language and sketched in the broadest outline,here are the reflections and judgements of a man who all his political life was never far from the centre of events and ended it as a statesman admired and trusted the world over for his wisdom and conciliatory approach.