The seventh enemy: The human factor in the global crisis

By Ronald Higgins

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070287805
• ISBN13: 9780070287808
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A first-hand look at how humanity shoots itself in the foot.

This guy's name sounds like a bureaucrat, and in fact he was a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office. Don't be put off by that - he has a very easy-to-read style. He writes from first-hand observation of many of the personal foibles, cockups and bureaucrap which have shaped the history of the twentieth century. If you can't understand why people can't just sit down and resolve their differences like sensible adults, read this book. Higgins won't tell you why, either, but he will explain in excruciating detail just how the individual and collective personalities of people (in power and not) have affected some of the major diplomatic crises of the last fifty years.