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TransAtlantic Man 2nd Edition
Author(s): Eldon Griffiths (Author)
- Publisher: GM Books
- Publication Date: January 1, 2010
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 800 pages
- ISBN-10: 1882383699
- ISBN-13: 9781882383696
Book Description
Memoirs – Volume 1. Eldon Griffiths was born in England in 1925 and educated at Cambridge and Yale. TransAtlantic man, the first of a two volume memoir, follows his rapid progress from a small Lancashire village to international journalism and on to high politics both in opposition and government with Margaret thatcher. TransAtlantic Man is rich in personal recollections of leaders on both sides of the Atlantic, from Churchill to Blair, from Nixon and Kennedy to George W. Bush. Starting with a young man’s exposure to Hitler’s death camps, it shares his experiences as a prisoner of the Russians to Budapest and at the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and regales us with anecdotes about the parliamentary district, Bury St. Edmunds, on fifth of whose residents were Americans, from which the U.S> launched its air strike on Libya. Among the highlights are meetings with DeGaulle, Castro, Pinochet, Nelson Mandela, Gorbachev and ‘glamour girls’ form Elizabeth Taylor to Princess Diana.
