CHRISTOPHER MEYER - Getting Our Way. 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue The Inside Story of British Diplomacy

London England, Weidenfeld & Nicholsn, 2009. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 9780297858751 Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. Getting Our Way. This book recounts nine stories from Britain's diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which the diplomats themselves are at the centre of the narrative. It is an inside account of their extraordinary experiences, sometimes in the face of physical danger, often at history's hinge. Be it Henry Killigrew's mission to Edinburgh in 1572, Castlereagh at the Congress of Vienna, Our Man in Washingtin and the Nassau Deal, or the handover of Hong King to China, we can see how Britain has viewed its interests in the world and sought to advance them. Moreover, the book is a salutary reminder that foreign policy (what is to be done) and diplomacy (how it is t be dne) begin and end with the national interest. And far from being the preserve of aloof arisctocrats, the oursuite of our narional interest is replete with intrigue, treachery, espionage and danger - and extraordinary combination of high principle and how cunning, vice and virtue, all with the specific aim of 'getting our way'. Illustrated. 292 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).