Hankey: Man Of Secrets
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
At the heart of British power for over three decades, Maurice Hankey was the ultimate insider — a man who shaped history from the shadows, yet left almost no public trace. Hankey: Man of Secrets chronicles the remarkable life of Lord Maurice Hankey, the first Secretary to the British Cabinet, whose extraordinary career placed him at the centre of the most consequential decisions of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference, and the turbulent interwar years. Captain Stephen Roskill, a distinguished naval historian, presents a meticulously researched account drawn from Hankey's own diaries and papers, reconstructing the inner workings of British government with rare authority and precision. Roskill's narrative illuminates the paradox of a man whose immense institutional power was matched only by his studied anonymity, arguing that Hankey was arguably the most influential British civil servant of the twentieth century. Written with the rigour of a scholar and the narrative drive of a seasoned historian, this biography details the machinery of war cabinets, secret committees, and diplomatic summits with vivid clarity. Themes of duty, discretion, and the hidden architecture of power run throughout, raising a compelling question: how much of history is made not by the faces we remember, but by the hands we never see?
Author: Stephen Roskill
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
At the heart of British power for over three decades, Maurice Hankey was the ultimate insider — a man who shaped history from the shadows, yet left almost no public trace. Hankey: Man of Secrets chronicles the remarkable life of Lord Maurice Hankey, the first Secretary to the British Cabinet, whose extraordinary career placed him at the centre of the most consequential decisions of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference, and the turbulent interwar years. Captain Stephen Roskill, a distinguished naval historian, presents a meticulously researched account drawn from Hankey's own diaries and papers, reconstructing the inner workings of British government with rare authority and precision. Roskill's narrative illuminates the paradox of a man whose immense institutional power was matched only by his studied anonymity, arguing that Hankey was arguably the most influential British civil servant of the twentieth century. Written with the rigour of a scholar and the narrative drive of a seasoned historian, this biography details the machinery of war cabinets, secret committees, and diplomatic summits with vivid clarity. Themes of duty, discretion, and the hidden architecture of power run throughout, raising a compelling question: how much of history is made not by the faces we remember, but by the hands we never see?