
Alec Douglas-Home
D.R. Thorpe(Author)
Politico's Publishing Ltd
Published on 8. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
592 pages
978-1-84275-191-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
4 X 8pp bw plates
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84275-191-6 (9781842751916)
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Person
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.