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  • Teide,
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  • Tentera Nasional Kalimantan
    Utara
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  • Terzić, Adnan,
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    • as an ex-leader,
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    • Falklands,
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    • handshake,
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    • inspecting her cabinet,
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    • ‘Iron Lady’,
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    • John Major and,
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    • 1983 election,
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    • Parliamentary Question Time,
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    • revolutionary approach,
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    • Tony Blair and,
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    • US extraterritoriality,
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    • Westland crisis,
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    (James Joyce),
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    Story of the Indonesian
    confrontation
    (Harold James and Denis Shiel Small),
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    HMS,
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    HMS,
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    HMS,
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  • Vulliamy, Ed,
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  • Wagner, Richard,
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  • Warburton Report,
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  • Warry, Nan (aunt),
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  • Wheeler, Ron,
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  • Whelan, Charlie,
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  • Whirlwinds,
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  • whiskey,
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  • White Eagles,
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  • Whitewater estuary,
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  • ‘Who’d Have Thought It’ public house,
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  • Winter of Discontent,
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  • WIPO (World International Property Organisation),
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  • Wolfenden report,
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    anti-tank guns,
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  • Women Victims of War,
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  • Woodbury Common,
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  • World Economic Forum,
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  • Wotton, Sir Henry,
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  • Wrigglesworth, Ian,
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  • Wu, Bennie,
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  • Xiao Mao,
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  • Yeats, W. B.,
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  • Yeltsin, Boris,
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  • Yeovil
    • Ashdown selected,
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    • Ashdown’s strategy,
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    • constituents visit House of Commons,
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    • council house repairs,
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    • Houndstone,
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    • informal atmosphere,
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    • Liberal background,
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    • office team,
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    • ‘orange tide’,
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    • racist attack,
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    • ‘sturdy individualism’,
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  • Yeovil Hospital,
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  • Yeovil Liberal Club,
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  • Young Liberals,
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  • Young Turks,
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  • Yugoslavia,
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    • see also
      constituent parts
  • ‘Z’ lighters,
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  • Zagreb,
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  • Zahiragić, Amela,
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  • Zvornik,
    1

PADDY ASHDOWN was the founding leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. From 2002 to 2006 he served as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. His previous books include two volumes of
The Ashdown Diaries
, which covered his years as party leader, and
Swords and Ploughshares: Building Peace in the
21st Century
. He lives in the Somerset village of Norton-sub-Hamdon near Yeovil, the constituency he represented between 1983 and 2001, and currently sits in the House of Lords.

 

‘Ashdown’s was not a classic political life – soldier, spy, politician, Bosnian hero. The book offers a terrific guide to battlecraft, from how to deter jungle leeches to the importance of homebrew in wooing the Lib Dem activists’
Observer

First published 2009 by Aurum Press Ltd
7 Greenland Street, London NW1 0ND
www.aurumpress.co.uk

This e-book edition first published in 2010 by Aurum Press

Copyright © Paddy & Jane Ashdown Partnership 2009

Paddy Ashdown has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Aurum Press Ltd.

Unless otherwise credited all photographs are from the author’s personal collection.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 978 1 84513 522 5
E-BOOK ISBN: 978 1 84513 647 5

Book designed and typeset by Robert Updegraff 

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