{"product_id":"9781398112490","title":"Diplomatic Adventures : Cold-War Moscow, War-torn Pakistan and Peron's Argentina","description":"\u003cp\u003eA behind-the-scenes look at the life of a junior diplomat.   Moscow in the Cold War. Karachi during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. Buenos Aires at the time of Per�n's death. Three critical chapters of twentieth-century history - and as a young diplomat, Tony Rossiter had a box seat.   In Moscow in 1968, Western diplomats were kept under surveillance, their flats were bugged, and they were harassed by the KGB. From Moscow, Tony went to Karachi, a quasi-colonial world of servants and snobby expatriates. When war broke out, his young family huddled together as bomb blasts shook the walls. After a week of air attacks, women and children were belatedly evacuated. Transferred to Buenos Aires, it was out of the frying pan into the fire. Tony arrived, shortly after Per�n's reinstatement as president, as the Montoneros urban guerrillas were stepping up terrorist attacks against Western targets.   Unlike the memoirs of most former diplomats, this book is not about high-level bureaucracy. Instead, it provides rare insight into the day-to-day life of a young man working at the coalface. Rossiter's background was unusual for his era, and this vivid and evocative memoir offers a unique glimpse behind the curtain of international diplomacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookmonger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59196754395470,"sku":"9781398112490","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0874\/5795\/6174\/files\/9781398112490.jpg?v=1773771207","url":"https:\/\/thebookmongerbearsden.co.uk\/products\/9781398112490","provider":"The Bookmonger","version":"1.0","type":"link"}