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
