Anthony Eden, who served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, was one of the central political figures of the twentieth century. He had good looks, charm, a Military Cross from the Great War, an Oxford first and a secure parliamentary constituency from his mid-twenties. He was Foreign Secretary at the age of 38, and the first British statesman to meet Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Eden's dramatic resignation from Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet in 1938, outlined here in the fullest detail yet, made an international impact.This ground-breaking book examines his controversial life and tells the inside story of the Munich crisis (1938), the Geneva Conference (1954), Eden's battles with Churchill over the modernisation of the post-war Conservative Party and his rivalry with Butler and Macmillan in the early 1950s, culminating in a fascinating analysis of the Suez crisis.
Vorwort
A masterly biography which - through hitherto unseen primary material, new evidence and numerous interviews - reveals Eden in all his complexity.
Autorentext
Vorwort
A masterly biography which - through hitherto unseen primary material, new evidence and numerous interviews - reveals Eden in all his complexity.
Autorentext
D. R. Thorpe is a senior member of Brasenose College, Oxford. He has written widely on twentieth-century British political history, and was invited to undertake this biography by the Countess of Avon, Eden's widow, who has made important new material available to him.
Titel
Eden
Untertitel
The Life and Times of Anthony Eden First Earl of Avon, 1897-1977
Autor
EAN
9781446476956
ISBN
978-1-4464-7695-6
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
31.05.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
5.41 MB
Anzahl Seiten
784
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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