A Fortunate Life - The Autobiography Of Paddy Ashdown

Product Description

Paddy Ashdown’s autobiography was hailed as one of the most readable & exciting political life stories ever written of all – precisely because it was so very much more.

This is the autobiography of an old-fashioned Man of Action, an adventurer, to be compared more readily to Fitzroy Maclean than David Steel. Ashdown’s years as MP for Yeovil & leader of the Liberal Democrats pale alongside his time as a Royal Marine Commando, in the Special Boat squadron, as a spy, on military service in Northern Ireland & Indonesia, & then subsequently – perhaps his finest & most heroic role, as the UN’s High representative in war-torn Bosnia.

As one reviewer remarked: “ This must be the first political memoir to offer advice on the best way to execute a jungle ambush & on how to treat an open wound using red ants.”

Ashdown’s appeal – which explains this books’s hardback bestseller status – is that he transcends party political allegiances, & is seen as a genuinely honest & decent man unafraid to take on the hardest challenges.