Dimensions
165 x 240 x 36mm
The Long-Awaited Early Years
The first volume of Alan Clark's 'Diaries' plundered the nine years he served as junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's government. Just how he came to enter the House of Commons and serve as a backbencher for not far short of a decade before advancement into Margaret Thatcher's government, is the story of this volume.
And what years they are: in politics, the downfall of Edward Heath, the rise of Mrs Thatcher. The country faces the three-day week, the miners' strike, the winter of discontent. Clark observes it all. As the eighties begin Mrs Thatcher and her Cabinet are at daggers drawn, and then comes the Falklands imbroglio.
Nor is it just politics. These earlier years offer delight and frustration in equal measure. What adventures along the way!
