When Shrimps Learn to Whistle: Signposts For the Nineties

by Denis Healey (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.25

  Following the success of his memoirs The Time of My Life , Denis Healey turns his attention in this lively and penetrating collection of essays to the themes which underlie the far-reaching political developments that have taken place in Eastern Europe over the last year. Denis Healey's and experience of domestic and world affairs has given him a clear understanding of European politics.

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.25

  A collection of essays on some of the most pressing themes of today from nationalism and a world society, European unity, non-nuclear strategy, Gorbachev and Soviet foreign policy, and on post cold-war Britian. The essays demonstrate how the revolutions of the new world echo those of the old. Written as a companion volume to The Time of my Life the commentary is brought right up to date in the introduction and epilogue, providing the reader with a grandstand seat in the arena of European politics.