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Masterly biography of one of the most complex, fascinating and ultimately tragic figures of British politics in the 20th century. Anthony Eden served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister. Based on hitherto unseen primary source material, this book reveals the true, inside stories of the Munich crisis (1938) and of the Suez crisis (1956). It also throws new light on Churchill.

Eden was one of the most fascinating and ultimately tragic British politicians of the 20th century. A man of rigid honour, he resigned as Foreign Secretary in 1938 over the appeasement of Hitler, eventually achieving his desire to be Prime Minister, only to be brought down by the 1956 Suez Crisis.


SIMON HEFFER, THE LITERARY REVIEW
"This magnificent biography ... a very necessary book."

PETER LEWIS, DAILY MAIL
"excellent, well-researched, clear and readable"

ROY HATTERSLEY, NEW STATESMAN
"a biography of almost unqualified excellence ...comprehensive, authoritative, balanced and invariably (throughout more than 600 pages) readable ..."

Title Information

ISBN:

9780712665056

Pages:

758 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

24764

Publisher:

Pimlico

Published:

05/02/2004

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