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Books by Alan Clark

* Barbarossa   * Back Fire   * The Donkeys   * The Fall of Crete

* Aces High: The war in the air over the Western Front, 1914-1918

* The Lion Heart:  A tale of the war in Vietnam  * Summer Season: A Novel

* The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-1997  * A Good Innings

* Diaries: Into Politics 1972- 1982  * Diaries: (subsequently sub-titled 'In Power')

* Suicide of the Empires: (subsequently titled 'Great Battles') The Eastern Front, 1914 - 1918
Alan Clark, MP for Plymouth (Sutton) 1974-1992 and Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-1999, was Minister of Trade, 1986-1989, and Minister of State, Minister of Defence, 1989-1992. He published three novels, but made his reputation as a historian with The Donkeys: A History of the BEF in 1915, followed by The Fall of Crete, Barbarossa: the Russian-German Conflict, 1941-1945 and Aces High: The War in the Air Over the Western Front, 1914-1918. He also edited the private diaries of Viscount Lee of Fareham, A Good Innings.
After quitting the House of Commons in 1992 he published his Diaries the following year. His political history, The Tories: The Conservatives and the Nation State, appeared in 1998. A second volume of his Diaries, covering his entry into politics until the Falklands War, was published in 2000, and a collection of his motoring journalism in 2001 under the title Back Fire: A Passion for Cars and Motoring.