In Victory, Magnanimity, in Peace, Goodwill

A History of Wilton Park

By: Richard Mayne

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Hardcover | 1 April 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Wilton Park is a unique phenomenon: part of the Britih Government but academically independent; well-known among policy makers, but with a low public profile; created to help foster democracy in post-war Germany, but now with global reach; a vehicle for international dialogue, never one for British propaganda.

Why did the British Government create such an institution in 1946? What impact did it have? How did it evolve from a training centre for German prisoners of war to today's international policy forum?

In Victory, Magnanimity, in Peace, Goodwill tells the story for the first time. It describes how it was Winston Churchill who proposed Wilton Park's post-war role. But its founding father was a German: Heinz Koeppler, a historian who had fled from Hitler to Magdalen College, Oxford, and had worked in Britain's wartime Political Intelligence Department. After the war, he fought as many battles as during it, to resisit Government cuts and to maintain Wilton Park's academic independence as a centre of frank, searching and off-the-record debate. Koeppler's legacy is today's thriving institution.

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'An interesting, skilful and successful salute to Wilton Park's unusual history and its valuable continuing contribution.' - Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Journal

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Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Behind Barbed Wire	p. 1
A European Education	p. 12
Pow Camp 300	p. 24
Captive Audience	p. 29
Nissen-Hut University	p. 48
From the Waste Land	p. 62
Sheets and Dances and Tough Talk	p. 81
The Captains and the Kings Depart	p. 95
Teach the Free Man	p. 116
Goodbye to All That?	p. 145
Aspiring Dreams	p. 163
Stately Home	p. 174
Threat	p. 192
New Look	p. 224
New World	p. 243
Democracy in Aristocratic Dress	p. 253
Headhunting	p. 265
Warden Emeritus	p. 273
New Regime	p. 280
Where There's a Will	p. 291
Most Unkindest Cuts	p. 300
Ructions and Resignations	p. 324
New Broom	p. 348
Forty Years On	p. 363
Luxury	p. 378
New Status	p. 389
Continuity	p. 414
Index	p. 417
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In Victory, Magnanimity, in Peace, Goodwill

A History of Wilton Park

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