The Donkeys

by Clark, Alan

$40 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962. Presumed First U.S. Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Good. 216 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library with usual library markings, bookplate and sticker. Boards and spine scuffed and somewhat faded. Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 - 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1991. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which inspired the musical satire Oh, What a Lovely War! Clark became known for his flamboyance, wit, and irreverence. Norman Lamont called him "the most politically incorrect, outspoken, iconoclastic and reckless politician of our times". Clark is particularly remembered for his three-volume Alan Clark Diaries, which contains a candid account of political life under Thatcher and a moving description of the weeks preceding his death, when he continued to write until he could no longer focus on the page. Clark's first book, The Donkeys (1961), was a revisionist history of the British Expeditionary Force's (BEF) campaigns at the beginning of the First World War. The book covers Western Front operations during 1915, including the offensives at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and

• Publisher: William Morrow and Company
• Year: 1962
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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