The Great Deception
The True Story of Britain and the European Union
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The Great Deception
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Dugald Bruce Bruce Lockhart
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Narrated by:
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Dugald Bruce Bruce Lockhart
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Written by:
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Mr Christopher Booker
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Dr Richard North
Since its publication in 2003, The Great Deception has taken on the role of the Eurosceptics' bible, with the third edition helping to fuel the debate during the 2016 EU Referendum.
This fourth edition celebrates the moment when the UK broke away from the European Union, having been extensively re-edited to incorporate newly available archive material, and updated to include the tumultuous events of recent years.
The Great Deception, therefore, tells for the first time the inside story of the most audacious political project of modern times, from its intellectual beginnings in the 1920s, when the blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil servant, right up to the point when the UK resumes its path at as an independent sovereign nation after 47 years of membership of the European project in its various guises.
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence and existing sources, scarcely an episode of the story does not emerge in startling new light, from the real reasons why de Gaulle kept Britain out in the 1960s to the fall of Mrs Thatcher and the build-up to the referendum campaign which had its roots in the Maastricht Treaty.
The book chillingly shows how Britain’s politicians were consistently outplayed in a game the rules of which they never understood. It ends by evaluating the post referendum negotiations and asking whether this is the end of an episode or just a new beginning.©2021 Richard North (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critic Reviews
...carefully researched....Everyone claims that there has to be a great debate about the EU. But this solid book has gone unanswered.
"The literature on European integration is dominated by an uncritical historicism that implies that the superseding of the nation-state in Europe is both inevitable and culturally desirable. A skeptical narrative has long been overdue."- The Historian, Vol. 67, No. 4 (The Historian)
Title mentioned in Daily Express as one of Chirstopher Foyle's Six Best Books, August 2007.
...The authors perform a valuable service in outlining the virtual secrecy which has surrounded preparations for a 21st-century European army with technological capabilities matching those of the US...a valuable store of history and information. (Brian Precious)
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