商品簡介
This book is Jamsheed Marker's recollection, mostly from memory, of his varied diplomatic career in some of the worlds most important capitals, and of travels that took him from the frozen wastes of Siberia and the Arctic to the desert sands of the Sahara.
The author has met and known many of the world's leaders, and has been witness to some significant events of the second half of the twentieth century. Situated in a strategic position, the young country of Pakistan soon found itself the focus of world attention, especially after the Soviet invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan. The author, at the time Pakistan's ambassador to the US, was intimately involved in forging a joint strategy in one of the great geo-political battles of the 1980sthe effort to expel the Soviet army from Afghanistan. He author paints a vivid picture of the hectic behind the scenes efforts which culminated in the Geneva Accord in 1988 and subsequent withdrawal of Soviet forces.
Jamsheed Marker has juxtaposed events in Pakistan concurrently with each of his ambassadorial assignments. This not only provides a link and continuous thread to the narrative but also contains the author's impressions of the Pakistani leaders under whom he served. He has recorded all his impressions with candour and recalls his friendships not only with eminent writers, artists and musicians of all nationalities, but also with the common citizens of the countries in which he served.
The book is a valuable account of the art of diplomacy, as practised by an expert over a long period of time.
作者簡介
Jamsheed Marker comes from a well known Parsee family of Quetta and Karachi and was born on 24 November 1922 in Hyderabad, India. He was educated at the Doon School in Dehra Dun and then at Forman Christian College, Lahore, where he graduated as a Gold Medalist with an Honours Degree in Economics. He served during World War II as an officer in the Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve, first in command of a magnetic minesweeper, and then on combined operations in Burma. At the end of the war he worked in his family business and served on the Boards of public and private corporations in banking, insurance and shipping.
