Name: Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
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Author: Hickman, Katie
ISBN: 9780006387800

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Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

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Physical Book

Author

Katie Hickman

Publisher

Flamingo

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN13

9780006387800

Synopsis "Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives"

An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.'English ambassadresses are usually on the dotty side and leaving their embassies drives them completely off their rockers' - Nancy MitfordFrom the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still today, the foreign service has been shaped and run behind the scenes by the wives of ambassadors and minor civil servants. Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, they have struggled to bring their civilization with them. Their stories - from ambassadresses downwards - never before told, are a feast of eccentricity, genuine hardship and genuine heroism, and make for a hilarious, compelling and fascinating book.

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