Choose Your Weapons

Choose Your Weapons (2011) by Douglas Hurd – Phoenix
Offered by Crappy Old Books – proudly stocking paperbacks with more dents than diplomacy.

Douglas Hurd, former Foreign Secretary and master of the measured eyebrow raise, delivers a cool, considered look at British foreign policy through the lives of 19 of its key architects—from Palmerston to Blair. Choose Your Weapons isn’t just a history book; it’s a quietly biting meditation on power, principle, and the art of not making things worse. Hurd writes with the calm authority of a man who’s both read the briefing and dodged the landmine.

Our copy? Slightly foxed, with the odd coffee ring and a vague smell of Whitehall corridors. Still utterly readable, especially if you like your political insight served with a side of eroded cover laminate.

Crappy Old Books – because shiny new things don’t know what détente means.

Near new condition.

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