Alec Douglas-Home (Politico's Great Statesmen) - Softcover

Thorpe, D.R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842751913 ISBN 13: 9781842751916

Publisher: Politico's Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Home, was a member of every Conservative administration from 1935 to 1974. He was Prime Minister from October 1963 until narrowly losing to Harold Wilson the following year. He later served as Foreign Secretary, after which he returned to the House of Lords. Lord Home's career spanned: the government of Stanley Baldwin; Munich, Suez; the Cuban missile crisis; the Rhodesian rebellion; and the Tory leadership struggles over twenty years. Lord Home met Hitler and Mussolini at Munich; US presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon; and Krushchev, Gromyko and Chou En-Lai - there were few world leaders whose path he did not cross at some stage. His political career spanned sixty years and his marriage to Elizabeth fifty-four. He was, as described by Margaret Thatcher, a man who 'represented all that was best of his generation'.

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About the Author

D R Thorpe's first book was The Uncrowned Prime Ministers, a study of Austen Chamberlain, Lord Curzon and Lord Butler; this was followed by a life of Selwyn Lloyd and a highly acclaimed biography of Sir Anthony Eden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Politico's Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842751913
• ISBN 13: 9781842751916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592