Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skir t-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror
by Craig Murray
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New York: Scribner, October 2007. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition / full number line. Good+ book in a Good+ jacket. Text has a few black ink emphasis marks from a prior reader. Spine straight and tight. Quarter-inch tear at spine tail. Rubbing to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 366.
An irreverent former British ambassador in Uzbekistan discusses his witness to regional brutality under the regime of dictator and western ally Islom Karimov, describing the political dogma he encountered from London's Foreign Office and their senior partners in Washington. First published in London as Murder in Samarkand.
An irreverent former British ambassador in Uzbekistan discusses his witness to regional brutality under the regime of dictator and western ally Islom Karimov, describing the political dogma he encountered from London's Foreign Office and their senior partners in Washington. First published in London as Murder in Samarkand.
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- Title
- Dirty Diplomacy
- Author
- Craig Murray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
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- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1416548017
- ISBN 13
- 9781416548010
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 2007
- Keywords
- autobiography, biography, memoirs, Craig Murray, Murder in Samarkand, ambassadors, diplomats, diplomacy, foreign affairs, foreign relations, international relations, Karimov, depots, despotism, corruption, Great Britain, Uzbekistan, United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government; International Relations; Biographies; Asia; Middle East; Humor, Comedy, Satire, Funny stuff; Britain;
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- 8vo
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