War in Shangri-LA A Memoir of Civil War in Laos

Sir Mervyn Brown, after Oxford where he gained a tennis blue and formed lifelong friendships with Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, mainly through jazz, became a career diplomat. He served in Buenos Aires, Singapore and Vientiane, as Ambassador to Madagascar and Benin and as High Commissioner to Tanzania and Nigeria, with spells at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the United NationsBrown, Mervyn is the author of 'War in Shangri-LA A Memoir of Civil War in Laos', published 2001 under ISBN 9781860647352 and ISBN 1860647359.