Books by Alain Peyrefitte
The Collision of Two Civilisations
by Alain Peyrefitte
Peyrefitte uses remarkable Chinese as well as British sources and has produced one of the most colourful as well as most important works in the history of diplomacy. What it shows, of course, is that diplomacy is not enough.
Interviews where books by Alain Peyrefitte were recommended
The best books on Why We Need Diplomats, recommended by Geoff Berridge
Academic and author of textbooks on the field tells us that diplomacy can well do without rank amateurs “in the same way that medicine can do without snake-oil merchants”