Ignorance and Bliss

von Nancy Dargel

168 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This is a story of events as seen and experienced by a private individual during the greater part of the twentieth century. Ground covered: a child in Essex during WWI; convent school in France; encounters with a parent disabled in the war; universities, Sorbonne, Oxford; love story; personal successes; WWII; private war effort, in Berlin for the duration; Control Commission; the postwar bulge; a diplomatic post; change over to an anonymous commitment; Africa, 1960-61, the Ethiopian attempted coup d'état; Ghana, Sudan; Central Europe, Prague, 20 August 1968; Soviet Union; the Helsinki Agreement, CSCE; Belgrade, Madrid, Stockholm. The manuscript closes in the last decade of the twentieth century. It could, the author wrote, have gone on for further chapters if found too short.

• Reihe: Trafford Publishing
• ISBN: 9781466918412
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.03.2012
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Westbow Press