Home and Abroad

by William Strang

The memoirs of Lord William Strang, who joined the British Foreign Service in 1919. He served in a variety of capacities, including those of chief advisor on League of Nations Affairs, Political Advisor to Field Marshal Montgomery in Germany (1945-1947), and finally, until his retirement in 1953, as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office. He went with Neville Chamberlain to Munich, and took part in the Moscow negotiations in 1939. He sat across the table from Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Molotov, and Vyshinsky, of whom he gives acute and intimate portraits.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published December 20, 1983

About the author

William Strang, 1st Baron Strang was a British diplomat who served in a variety of positions in the Foreign Office in his career, which lasted from 1919 to 1953. He served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1953, guiding the United Kingdom through the Marshall Plan, the establishment of the Western European Union and NATO, and the breaking of the Berlin blockade.

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