Ringside Seat: The Political and Wartime Memoirs of James Allason - Hardcover

Allason, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857252233 ISBN 13: 9781857252231

Publisher: Timewell Press, 2007

Synopsis

Ringside Seat The political and wartime memoirs of former MP James Allason, a man who knew seven UK prime ministers. He worked with Mountbatten's military planners - Peter Fleming and Dean Rusk - and after being wounded in Burma advised Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms. His advice to Atlee influenced the creation of the State of Israel. The book sheds new light on the Cuban Missile Crisis and includes the definitive account of the Profumo affair.

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Review:

Reveals the truth behind one of the most notorious political
scandals of the twentieth century - Glen Owen, -- Mail on Sunday

The decisive episodes in the history of the twentieth century
found James at the centre of the action, as a soldier, military planner,
and later as a politician with a singular grasp of the issues that mattered
to ordinary people -- Margaret Thatcher

From the Publisher:

Review for Ringside Seat:
His accounts of his adventures shed light on many of the political events
and scandals of the 1960s and 1970s. Well worth the money and well worth
the time to read. They don't make them like James Allason any more.' -
Norman Tebbit

About this edition

• Publisher: Timewell Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1857252233
• ISBN 13: 9781857252231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176