English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09VQWZLQ2 | Duration: 25:41 h | 1,37 GB
Chris Patten / Narrated by Chris Patten
In June 1992, Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not—as other British colonies over the decades—for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years, he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997. Unexpectedly, his opponents included not only the Chinese themselves, but some British businessmen and civil service mandarins upset by Patten's efforts, for whom political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong seemed less important than keeping on the right side of Beijing. The book concludes with an account of what has happened in Hong Kong since the handover, a powerful assessment of recent events and Patten's reflections on how to deal with China—then and now.

Neville Bennett, "A Falklands Family at War: Diaries of the 1982 Conflict"
English | ISBN: 1399010239 | 2021 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Many military accounts of the British side of the Falklands War have been published as well as memoirs written by servicemen who took part, so this aspect of the story of the Argentine occupation and the British liberation of this remote territory in the South Atlantic is well known. But little attention has been paid to the Falkland islanders who had direct personal experience of this extraordinary crisis in their history. That is why the previously unpublished diaries of Neville Bennett and his wife Valerie, a fireman and a nurse who lived with their two daughters in Port Stanley throughout the war, is such vivid and revealing reading.

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Tony Benn, "More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0091920566 | EPUB | pages: 416 | 2.5 mb
When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have "more time for politics." Since the turn of the century, he has helped reinvigorate national debate through public meetings, mass campaigns, and appearances in the media, passionately bringing moral and political issues to wide audiences. And throughout, as ever, he has been keeping his diaries. Commenting on the demise of the New Labor project from the reelection of Tony Blair in 2001 to the ultimate foreign policy disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq, he gives prescient accounts of the government's bypassing of the cabinet, parliament, and the party, of the "war on terror," the debate about Islam, globalization, and the changes in British society. Although he is no longer in power or in parliament, Tony Benn remains a figure of enormous respect whose direct views, honestly expressed, have often awakened the national conscience. His latest diaries, human and challenging in turn, are an enthralling read.

English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09TBHM27W | Duration: 9:51 h | 271 MB
Ben Aitken / Narrated by Ben Aitken

Benn, Tony, "Free At Last: Diaries 1991 - 2001"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1407096710 | ASIN: B0031RSAC4 | EPUB | pages: 770 | 2.8 mb
Tony Benn is the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour Party. He left Parliament in 2001, after more than half a century in the House of Commons, to devote more time to politics. This volume of his Diaries describes and comments, in a refreshing and honest way, upon the events of a momentous decade including two world wars, a change of government in Britain and the emergence of New Labour, of which he makes clear he is not a member. Tony Benn's account is a well documented, formidable and principled critique of the New Labour Project, full of drama, opinion, humour, anecdotes and sparkling pen-portraits of politicians on both sides of the political divide. But his narrative is also broader and more revealing about day-to-day political life, covering many aspects normally disregarded by historians and lobby correspondents, relating to his work in the constituency, including his advice surgeries. This volume also offers far more of an insight into Tony Benn's personal life, his thoughts about the future and his relationship with his family, especially his remarkable wife Caroline, whose illness and death overshadow these years. Tony Benn is a unique figure on the British political landscape: a true democrat, a passionate socialist and diarist without equal. With this volume, his published Diaries cover British politics for over sixty years. It is edited, as are all others, by Ruth Winstone.

Tony Benn, "Conflicts of Interest: Diaries, 1977-80"
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0099898705 | ASIN: B00AWPV9JE | EPUB | pages: 675 | 3.4 mb
In this, the fourth volume of Tony Benn's diaries, the Labour Government continues its fight for survival. Important developments are occurring both at home and internationally. In Britain, Benn as Secretary of State for Energy is directly involved with Windscale and decisions about nuclear power and oil policy. Abroad, the Government is concerned with Carter's reappraisal of American foreign policy, the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and problems of EEC membership.

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