Between the Waves By Tom McTague
- Narrated by: Eliot Chapman
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-04-25
Between the Waves By Tom McTague AudioBook Summary
**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, author of Politics on the Edge
‘Alucid, thoughtful and richly provocative book’ Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times
‘Compelling, hugely well-informed . . . will stand for many years as the authoritative political history’ David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
This is 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, of nation, identity and belief, acclaimed political 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.
Drawing on unpublished sources and exclusive interviews, McTague unearths the roots of ideological conflict that raged between the leading politicians of the twentieth century as they fought for the future of Europe – Charles de Gaulle, Harold Macmillan, Jean Monnet, Enoch Powell and Margaret Thatcher.
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