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Eden D R Thorpe

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Zusammenfassung

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.

Eden Zusammenfassung

Eden D R Thorpe

Anthony Eden was born in the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (1897) and died in the year of Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee (1997). He had good looks, charm, a Military Cross from the First World War, a First from Oxford, a safe parliamentary seat - and ambition. A man of rigid honour, he resigned as Foreign Secretary in 1938 because he could not agree with the policy of appeasement to Hitler. After the commencement of hostilities, he was brought back into politics and served a long apprenticeship as Churchill's right-hand man. Eventually he achieved his heart's desire and became Prime Minister, only to be brought down by the Suez Crisis.

Eden Bewertungen

Tremendously well-researched and hard-hitting...quite the best compressed account I've ever read of it [of the Suez crisis]...superbly researched and well-written analysis', ANDREW ROBERTS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH .'The best-life of this ill-starred politician that we are likely to get...the skilful way he has paced his narrative...vivid...some of the disclosures are pure, unalloyed joy...Thorpe has painted a sympathetic enough portrait but he has not tried to blot out all the warts...excellent', ANTHONY HOWARD, SUNDAY TIMES .'Sympathetic and authoraitative...This biography, while solidly based on a myriad primary sources and a comprehensive range of secondary ones, flows easily with many nice touches...easily the best friendly account', INA GILMOUR, FINANCIAL TIMES .'a biography of almost unqualified excellence...comprehensive, authoritative, balanced and invariably (throughout more than 600 pages) readable...In a year or more of notable biographies, there has been nothing to touch it...as told by D.R. Thorpe it is a history of exceptionally high quality', Roy Hattersley, New Statesman .'excellent, well-researched, clear and readable', PETER LEWIS, DAILY MAIL .'This magnificent biography...this scholarly book...Thorpe's distinction lies in having redeemed his subject without making any prosleytising efforts to do so. The facts - many of them available for the first time - are allowed to speak for themselves. This is a very necessary book.', LITERARY REVIEW

Über D R Thorpe

D. R. Thorpe is a Senior Member of Brasenose College, Oxford. Following a career as a history teacher, he is now fast developing a reputation as one of our most stringent constitutional historians, with an unparalleled grasp of the political history of the 20th century. He is the biographer of Selwyn Lloyd and Alec Douglas-Home and the author of Uncrowned Prime Ministers- a study of Austen Chamberlain, Curzon and Butler.

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GOR008086424
9780701167448
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Eden D R Thorpe
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