After the war began he joined the RAF as a sergeant in 1940, then was commissioned and transferred to the British Army on the General List in 1941, reaching the rank of captain.

He spent 1941–42 in the eastern Mediterranean (the Middle East, Malta, Yugoslavia) and served as liaison officer to the Albanian Resistance Movement in 1943–44 ("The Musketeers": Captain Julian Amery, Major David Smiley and Lieutenant-Colonel Neil McLean).

The following year, Amery went to China to work with General Carton de Wiart, then Prime Minister's personal representative to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

In this role and during this two-year period, Amery was involved in the planning stages of what would become the supersonic passenger service known as Concorde.

In late 1962 Amery made these comments after Egypt sent troops to Yemen to prevent an insurrection: "The prosperity of our people rests really on the oil in the Persian Gulf, the rubber and tin of Malaya, and the gold, copper and precious metals of South- and Central Africa.

[11] In early 1975, he took part in a House of Commons debate on the Trades Unions Congress's invitation to Alexander Shelepin, the former Soviet KGB chief, to visit Britain.

"[citation needed] According to Margaret Thatcher's 1995 memoir, The Path to Power, when Harold Wilson's Labour government proposed devolution for Scotland in 1976, "Julian Amery and Maurice Macmillan proved effective leaders of the anti-devolution Tory camp.

[13] Amery died from heart failure on 3 September 1996, aged 77, at his home in Eaton Square, Westminster, London.

[2] He is buried with his wife (who predeceased him) at the Church of St John the Baptist in Lustleigh, Devon, along with his father Leo Amery.