About Douglas Hurd: Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell is a British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
