Power Politics in the Nuclear Age. A Policy for Britain.
King-Hall, Commander Sir Stephen.
Sold by West Coast Rare Books, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
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Add to basketSold by West Coast Rare Books, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
AbeBooks Seller since 21 April 2017
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Add to basketUncorrected Proof. 21 x 14 cm. 224 pages. Paperback proof copy with title on front board. In original unclipped yellow dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling throughout. Some edge wear to dust jacket, now in archival jacket. Dust jacket front and title page are stamped 'UNCORRECTED'. With a typed letter to Field Marshal Alanbrooke, signed by the author. The author also added typed paper sections stapled to various pages and containing corrections made between the proof phase and printing phase. Provenance: From the Library of Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Field Marshal Alanbrooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke. William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall (21 January 1893 - 2 June 1966), was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright. The son of Admiral Sir George Fowler King-Hall and Olga Felicia Ker; theirs was an artistic Naval family. He was educated at Lausanne in Switzerland and at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He fought in the First World War between 1914 and 1918, with the Grand Fleet, serving on HMS Southampton and 11th Submarine Flotilla. He gained the rank of commander in the service of the Royal Navy in 1928, before resigning in 1929. He wrote several plays between 1924 and 1940, including Posterity accepted by Leonard Woolf for the Hogarth Essays. He joined the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1929, having previously been awarded their Gold Medal for his 1920 thesis on submarine warfare. He entered the House of Commons in 1939 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ormskirk unopposed, standing as the National Labour candidate. He later changed his affiliation and continued to stand as an Independent, subsequently losing the seat to future Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the 1945 general election. During the Second World War, he served in the Ministry of Aircraft Production under Beaverbrook as Director of the Factory Defence Section. In 1944 he founded and chaired the Hansard Society to promote parliamentary democracy. He presented a programme for children on current affairs on both BBC radio and television. He was invested as a Knight Bachelor in 1954 and was created Baron King-Hall, of Headley in the County of Hampshire (Life Peer) on 15 January 1966. He lived at Hartfield House, Headley until his death on 2 June 1966. Sprache: english.
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