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Paddy Ashdown
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Paddy Ashdown
Jeremy "Paddy" John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, CH, KBE, PC born on 27th February 1941 in New Delhi, British India, was a British politician and diplomat who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 - 1999. Paddy became internationally recognised for his role as High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina from 2002 - 2006, following his strong lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia during the 1990s.
A Fortunate Life
Paddy Ashdown’s autobiography was hailed as one of the most readable and exciting political life stories ever written of all – precisely because it was so very much more. This is the autobiography of an old-fashioned Man of Action, an adventurer, to be compared more readily to Fitzroy Maclean than David Steel. Ashdown’s years as MP for Yeovil and leader of the Liberal Democrats pale alongside his time as a Royal Marine Commando, in the Special Boat squadron, as a spy, on military service in Northern Ireland and Indonesia, and then subsequently – perhaps his finest and most heroic role, as the UN’s High representative in war-torn Bosnia. As one reviewer remarked: “This must be the first political memoir to offer advice on the best way to execute a jungle ambush and on how to treat an open wound using red ants.” Ashdown’s appeal – which explains this books’s hardback bestseller status – is that he transcends party political allegiances, and is seen as a genuinely honest and decent man unafraid to take on the hardest challenges.
Swords and Ploughshares
How to convert military victory into lasting peace, not endless guerrilla war.
The Ashdown Diaries: 1988-1997
This volume of Paddy Ashdown's diary is a first-hand account of the efforts to build a centre-left strategy for defeating the Conservatives, gives insight into the management and structure of a modern political party, and also includes Ashdown's daily record.
The Ashdown Diaries: 1997-1999
This volume of Paddy Ashdown's diary is a first-hand account of the efforts to build a centre-left strategy for defeating the Conservatives, giving insight into the management and structure of a political party. It also includes Ashdown's daily record.
Special Boat Service
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Fortunate Life
Albert Facey’s story is the story of Australia.Born in 1894, and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn with whom he shared nearly sixty years of marriage.Despite enduring unimaginable hardships, Facey always saw his life as a fortunate one.A true classic of Australian literature, Facey’s simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century – the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.
Beyond Westminster
Amid stories of doom and gloom, in 1993 Paddy Ashdown set off to see for himself what was going on in Britain. He travelled up and down the country - from Cornwall to Orkney - spending time on housing estates, in schools and factories, with social workers and policemen, working alongside miners, dustmen, farmers and fishermen, talking to pensioners, gay rights activists, town planners, schoolchildren. And he discovered an astonishing and unexpected fund of strength, courage and resourcefulness.
