Tom McTague

Broschiertes Buch

Between the Waves

The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016

Beschreibung

**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction** 'Powerful, precise, morally engaged, wonderfully alert to character, context and the greater purpose of political life' Rory Stewart 'Will stand for many years as the authoritative political history' David Kynaston 'A cut above other Brexit accounts . . . even the most passionate Remainer - or Leaver - should enjoy it enormously' Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times The definitive history of Britain's tumultuous relationship with Europe - as it's never been told before. In a story of vaulting ambition and underhand politics, acclaimed writer Tom McTague chronicles the battle of ideas, events and personalities that first took the country into the Common Market in 1973, only to take it out of the European Union in an explosive referendum a little over forty years later. McTague examines the conflicts that raged between the leading politicians of the twentieth century as they fought for the future of Europe - and the lesser-known actors in Britain's great post-war drama: the Eurosceptic student radicals, Cold Warriors, eccentric billionaires and political strategists who turned the tide of history. A riveting story of the clashing ideals that have pulled at Britain's public imagination for more than seven decades, Between the Waves raises that most elemental of questions: who are we? 'A sweeping, impressive and ambitious history of modern Europe' Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women

Autor

Tom McTague is the Editor-in-Chief of The New Statesman. He has previously held positions as Political Editor at UnHerd and The Independent on Sunday , staff writer at The Atlantic and Chief UK Correspondent at POLITICO. He has been highly commended at the British Press Awards and co-anchored the geopolitical history podcast These Times. He is co-author of Betting the House, named by The Times as a 2017 Political Book of the Year. He grew up in County Durham in the northeast of England and now lives in London with his wife and three children. Between the Waves is his first work of history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm
• ISBN-13: 9781529083125
• ISBN-10: 1529083125
• Artikelnr.: 75664987