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Dirty diplomacy : the rough-and-tumble adventures of a scotch-drinking, skirt-chasing, dictator-busting and thoroughly unrepentant ambassador stuck on the frontline of the war against terror / Craig Murray.
- Title
- Dirty diplomacy : the rough-and-tumble adventures of a scotch-drinking, skirt-chasing, dictator-busting and thoroughly unrepentant ambassador stuck on the frontline of the war against terror / Craig Murray.
- Author
- Murray, Craig, 1958-
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 366 p. : map, facsim.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A former British ambassador in Uzbekistan discusses his witness to brutality under the regime of dictator and western ally Islam Karimov, describing the political dogma he encountered from London's Foreign Office and their senior partners in Washington.
- Uniform Title
- Murder in Samarkand
- Alternative Title
- Murder in Samarkand
- Subjects
- Biographies
- Since 1991
- Political corruption > Uzbekistan
- Ambassadors > Uzbekistan > Biography
- Ambassadors > Great Britain > Biography
- Karimov, I. A., 1938-
- Murray, Craig, 1958-
- Uzbekistan > Foreign relations > Great Britain
- Great Britain > Foreign relations > Uzbekistan
- Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1997-
- Uzbekistan > Politics and government > 1991-
- Despotism > Uzbekistan
- Karimov, I. A., 1938-2016
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Originally published as: Murder in Samarkand. Edinburgh : Mainstream Pub., 2006.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-349) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1 Awakening 1 -- 3 London to Tashkent 20 -- 4 Diplomacy 41 -- 5 The Ferghana Valley 66 -- 6 "A True British Gentleman" 81 -- 7 Cry Freedom! 94 -- 8 The Embassy 110 -- 9 Merry Christmas, War Is Coming 129 -- 10 Iron in the Soul 151 -- 11 Murder in Samarkand 175 -- 12 Pinafore, Battlefield and Baseball Bat 199 -- 13 Love in a Hot Climate 216 -- 14 Hammer to Fall 236 -- 15 One Step Ahead of the Shoeshine 250 -- 16 What Dreams May Come 273 -- 17 Tashkent Again 287 -- 18 Once More unto the Breach 309 -- 19 The Last Battle 324.
- ISBN
- 9781416548010
- 1416548017
- LCCN
- ^^2007300242
- OCLC
- 153578755
- SCSB-10459918
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library