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Source ISBN: 9780007548149
Ebook Edition © May 2016 ISBN: 9780007548132
Version: 2017-03-08
For my boys, Tom and Harry
(Kennedys through and through …)
and in memory of my grandfather, Robert Kennedy
CONTENTS
2. A Beautiful and Enchanting Child
10. Travels with my Mother: Russia and England
11. Politics and Europe Revisited
13. At the Court of St James’s
25. ‘This Country is at War with Germany’
34. Red Cross Worker of World War II