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This autumn The Times is serialising an unparalleled range of books. As well as biographies of some of the most important figures of the 20th century, we feature here The Ashdown Diaries, Volume One 1988 - 1997.
Online, we have gathered these extracts together and added a range of additional features. They include Milestones from The Times - articles from our archives which shed additional light on the extracts we have selected. You will also find reviews of the books, and Viewpoint - where online readers can add their voices to the debates that these books are bound to stir up.
The Collection began with a serialisation of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler followed by the second volume of Alan Clark's Diaries, the Midnight Diaries by Boris Yeltsin, and America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford.
The Ashdown Diaries, Volume One 1988 - 1997
Author profile
Before he began his political career, Paddy Ashdown served in the Royal Marine Commandos and in the Special Boat Service (SBS). In 1983 he became MP for Yeovil and in 1988 won the leadership election for the new Social and Liberal Democrats. He stood down as the party's leader in 1999.
Synopsis
The day Paddy Ashdown became leader of the of the Social and Liberla Democrats, he began to keep a diary. Culminating in Blair and Ashdown's secret plans to oust the Conservatives in 1997, this book describes Ashdown's early struggle to rescue his party from oblivion to the immediate political past.
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