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"This is the story of fifty years in which Britain struggled to reconcile the past she could not forget with the future she could not avoid". So opens Hugo Young's magisterial tour of the horizon of the UK's troubled relationship with Europe in general and the European Union in particular. Young, the doyen of liberal political columnists, has chosen to take on this subject at a time when the British Right remain in angry torment over it while the Labour Party appears to have at last made its peace with the Continent and all its works. The book opens with Churchill putting on record for the first time an outline of a new united Europe, but it ends with Blair actually "preparing to align the island with its natural hinterland beyond". In between there is a fascinating battle between wide eyed idealism, brutal realpolitik, and treacherous conspiracy. Both sides of the argument, of course, accuse the other of the treachery. Young has talked to everyone who matters and elegantly reveals his gripping narrative. In domestic terms, this is the story of half a century of wrecked political careers ending up most recently with John Major's cataclysmic defeat in 1997. But on the wider stage this is the story of a great question, and why a country found it so difficult to answer. --Nick Wroe
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Addresses a question that has remained unanswered since the end of World War II: is Britain a European country? Rewriting the inside history of Britain and the European Union, each phase of the history in this book is built around the role of a single character, starting with Churchill and concluding with Tony Blair. The narrative is also built around the careers of Ernest Bevin, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Roy Jenkins and Margaret Thatcher.
"This is the story of fifty years in which Britain struggled to reconcile the past she could not forget with the future she could not avoid". So opens Hugo Young's magisterial tour of the horizon of the UK's troubled relationship with Europe in general and the European Union in particular. Young, the doyen of liberal political columnists, has chosen to take on this subject at a time when the British Right remain in angry torment over it while the Labour Party appears to have at last made its peace with the Continent and all its works. The book opens with Churchill putting on record for the first time an outline of a new united Europe, but it ends with Blair actually "preparing to align the island with its natural hinterland beyond". In between there is a fascinating battle between wide eyed idealism, brutal realpolitik, and treacherous conspiracy. Both sides of the argument, of course, accuse the other of the treachery. Young has talked to everyone who matters and elegantly reveals his gripping narrative. In domestic terms, this is the story of half a century of wrecked political careers ending up most recently with John Major's cataclysmic defeat in 1997. But on the wider stage this is the story of a great question, and why a country found it so difficult to answer. --Nick Wroe
Synopsis
Addresses a question that has remained unanswered since the end of World War II: is Britain a European country? Rewriting the inside history of Britain and the European Union, each phase of the history in this book is built around the role of a single character, starting with Churchill and concluding with Tony Blair. The narrative is also built around the careers of Ernest Bevin, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Roy Jenkins and Margaret Thatcher.
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