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Author:   Nicholas Barrington
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Radcliffe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.667kg
ISBN:  

9781780768007

ISBN 10:   1780768001
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   17 December 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART I Chapter 1 Starting at the Beginning 1 Chapter 2 Repton. The Big School 12 Chapter 3 A Salutary Spell in the Army 19 Chapter 4 Multiple Options in Cambridge 25 PART II Chapter 5 Three Foreign office Postings 40 Chapter 6 First Tour in Pakistan and a Plum Job in the Private Office 52 Chapter 7 Japan, Hanoi and London Again 62 Chapter 8 The Riches of Egypt and Tensions in Tehran 71 Chapter 9 Under-Secretary at Home via New York 84 Chapter 10Ambassador in Islamabad 93 Chapter 11Travel in Pakistan 105 PART III Chapter 12Home at Last, Cambridge 116 Chapter 13Activities in London 128 Chapter 14Winding Down 145 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS APPENDIX Piccadilly Sermon INDEX

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Sir Nicholas Barrington was a career diplomat for 37 years prior to his retirement in 1994. He has served in a variety of posts overseas including Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt and Pakistan, where he ended as High Commissioner. He also served in Japan and Brussels. His home postings included three and a half years as a private secretary to two British Foreign Secretaries. In retirement he has been active in building bridges between East and West. He is the author of A Passage to Nuristan (I.B.Tauris), an account of his travels to remote areas of Afghanistan in the 1960s.

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