The Saint Petersburg Declaration

It is 1868 and the Imperial Cabinet of Russia is proposing an international agreement to forbid the use of certain projectiles in time of war. In the aftermath of the bloody Crimean War, the St Petersburg Declaration is designed to establish the key ethical notion of a just balance between military and humanitarian concerns in the field of warfare.

In this entertaining, thought-provoking novel, John Piper weaves a gripping, vibrant fiction set in the tense months leading up to the signing of what is hoped to be a landmark declaration. As Europe?s diplomats begin to converge on the wintry Russian capital, a gang of ruthless profiteers led by the glamorously evil Lady Cholmondly-Fforbes are hell-bent on scuppering the treaty and will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

Others, however, are equally determined for the Declaration to see the light of day ? and none more so than the dashing young Portuguese envoy, Antonio Manuel Joao da Encarnacao Fonseca Rodrigues. Together with his lover, the idealistic Austrian Alexandra Weiss, and an irrepressible Budapest street boy, he sets out for St Petersburg eager to confound the enemies of peace and humanity.

Combining rip-roaring adventure with international politics, tender romance with ethical debate, this is a novel whose issues ? sadly ? still resonate today.

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Author	John Piper
ISBN	9781846243691
Cover Type	Hardback
Format	216 x 135 mm
Publication Date	28/1/2010
Price:	£17.99

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