Reviews

Diplomacy Harold Nicolson reveals the principles of professionalism   by Nicholas Dungan   Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG was the product of a patrician Victorian and Edwardian background and upbringing. The son of a future ambassador and the grandson of an admiral, he was born in Persia, where his father, later The Lord Carnock, was chargé d’affaires at the British Embassy.   Nicolson spent his childhood, inter alia, in Tehran, Budapest, Constantinople and Tangiers.… Read the rest

Le Fil de l’épée Charles de Gaulle’s masterpiece on leadership — and himself   by Nicholas Dungan   In the concise canon of genuinely ingenious books on leadership — of which Machiavelli’s The Prince is perhaps the most celebrated and the most cited — Charles de Gaulle’s Le Fil de l’épée [The Edge of the Sword[1]] can rightly claim pride of place.… Read the rest