The Trouble Makers A. J. P. Taylor
Britain's foreign policy is generally supposed to have followed a broad line of national interest, transcending the controversies of domestic politics. In fact, foreign policy has often provoked fierce dispute, from Charles Fox's opposition to Britain's war against the French Revolution to the Labour Party's opposition to appeasement before World War II. In examining this continuity of dissent in foreign affairs, Taylor discusses some of the great political figures of the last two centuries.