Eden - Hardcover

Thorpe, D R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701167440 ISBN 13: 9780701167448

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701167440
• ISBN 13: 9780701167448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 784