The coincidence of Novembers : writings from a life of public service by Sir Patrick Nairne / edited by Sandy Nairne.
By: Nairne, Patrick [author.]
.Contributor(s): Nairne, Sandy [editor.] | Hennessy, Peter John, Baron Hennessy [writer of foreword.].Publisher: London : Unbound, 2020Description: xxxvi, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781783528301; 9781783528318.Subject(s): Nairne, Patrick -- Career in the civil service | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-DDC classification: 920 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 920 NAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Issued | 26/03/2024 | 022013 |
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Foreword by Peter Hennessy.
The sin of pride, Oxford University sermon, November 1989 -- I. Family and school : 1921-1939 -- The beginning : Hordle house -- The colonel's tale -- The end of the thirties - a Radley rite of passage -- II. World War Two : 1940-1945 -- Novembers - 1940 : into the army and 1942 : El Alamein -- Christmas day in the desert, 1942 -- Sferro hills, July 1943 -- Novembers - 1944 : the night we crossed the canal -- III. After the war : 1945-1967 -- Post-war diaries : 1945 and 1946 -- Novembers - 1946 and 1947 : Oxford -- Oxford interlude -- Novembers - 1947, 1949, 1953, 1956 -- Admiralty work in the late 1950s - diary extracts -- Novembers - 1959-1966 : with the First Lord and Secretary of State -- IV. Civil and public service : 1967-1981 -- Resources for defence, 1973 -- Novembers - the 1970s -- Reflections on retiring, 1981 -- An unplanned career -- A Christian in the public service -- V. St Catherine's, the Falklands and Hong Kong : 1981-1988 -- Novembers - 1981 : St Catherine's College, Oxford -- Franks and the Falklands, 1982 -- Novembers - 1984 : Hong Kong -- A monitor in Hong Kong, 1984 -- VI. Reflections : 1988-2013 -- Novembers - 1988 : Yew Tree -- The National Health Service : reflections on a changing service, 1988 -- Potential use of referendums, 1996 -- Handwriting for life, 1997 -- James-Jan : a triumph of courage, 1996/2006 -- One week in autumn, 1998 -- The perfect pastime of painting, 2002.