The Great Deception - by Christopher Booker & Richard North (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>Christopher Booker's classic story of the European Union's Great Deception, now updated with new material.</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Christopher Booker's classic story of the European Union's Great Deception, now updated with new material.</b> <p/>Now published with a new preface explaining why <i>The Great Deception </i>is of the utmost importance today as it was when it was first published and to coincide with Great Britain's EU referendum in 2016, this book suggests that the United States of Europe and its edict of 'ever closer union' have been based on a colossal confidence trick. <p/>This book tells for the first time the inside story of the most audacious political project of modern times: the plan to unite Europe under a single 'supranational' government. From the 1920s, when the blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil servant, this meticulously documented account takes the story right up to the moves to give Europe a political constitution, already planned 60 years ago to be the 'crowning dream' of the whole project. <p/>The book shows how the gradual assembling of a European government has amounted to a 'slow motion coup d'etat', based on a strategy of deliberate deception, into which Britain's leaders, Macmillan and Heath, were consciously drawn. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, 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. The book chillingly shows how Britain's politicians, not least Tony Blair, were consistently outplayed in a game the rules of which they never understood. But it ends by asking whether, from the euro to enlargement, the 'project' has now overreached itself, as a gamble doomed to fail.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"...carefully researched....Everyone claims that there has to be a great debate about the EU. But this solid book has gone unanswered." --<i>Books of the Year</i> <p/>"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" --<i>The Historian</i> <p/>"Title mentioned in Daily Express as one of Chirstopher Foyle's Six Best Books, August 2007." --<i>Daily Express</i> <p/>"...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." --<i>Brian Precious, Morning Star, The</i> <p/>"Author article about the book." --<i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Christopher Booker </b>was a celebrated journalist and author. He was a columnist for the <i>Sunday Telegraph</i> from 1990 to 2019 and his bestselling books include <i>The Seven Basic Plots, The Real Global Warming Disaster, The Great Deception</i> and <i>Scared to Death</i>. He was the founding editor of the satirical magazine <i>Private Eye</i>. He died in 2019. <p/><b>Richard North</b> has in recent years won a reputation as one of Britain's most expert defence analysts, through his 'Defence of the Realm' blog. Formerly a research director in the European Parliament, North is also a political analyst through his EU Referendum blog and an author.</p>
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