{"product_id":"statesman-of-europe-9780141991474","title":"Statesman of Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eoutstanding ... Otte's colossal, learned and measured book presents a powerful case for the defence \u003c\/b\u003e... It is true that Grey failed to avert war, but probably nobody could have succeeded. As Otte's excellent book shows, he did his best. -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eNo biography of Grey has ever been so thorough and scholarly as this -- Simon Heffer * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you read just one book of history this Christmas, it should be T.G. Otte's re-evaluation in \u003ci\u003eStatesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey\u003c\/i\u003e. This beautifully written biography of one of the most humane, perceptive and intelligent diplomats is a wistful reminder of what Britain might have been like if Lloyd George had not destroyed the Liberal party.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jonathan Sumption * Spectator Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ea magisterial account that is unlikely to be bettered\u003c\/b\u003e -- Martin Pugh * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eT.G. Otte's \u003ci\u003eStatesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey\u003c\/i\u003e is magnificent - its depth of analysis formidable and its humanity moving. \u003c\/b\u003e -- Allan Mallinson * Spectator Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ea very well written and comprehensive ... This scholarly, readable and objective book will be the standard biography of Sir Edward Grey for decades to come. It triumphantly gives him his proper desserts as an eminent Edwardian gentleman who did his best to save his country from what he knew would be a catastrophic war\u003c\/b\u003e -- Andrew Roberts * The Critic *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStatesman of Europe\u003c\/i\u003e T.G. Otte brings Grey to the fore, presenting his life as \"a useful prism through which the disruptions that produced modern Britain are thrown into sharper relief.\" Along the way, he takes up questions of crisis management and great-power rivalry that are still pressing today ... Otte, a leading British historian of diplomacy, emphasizes the complexity of Grey's personality along with the complexity of the problems he tried to manage ... . Otte, a deft chronicler and shrewd analyst, makes a strong case for Edward Grey as a great statesman-not least in his pursuit of what we would today call multilateralism -- William Anthony Hay * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStatesman of Europe \u003c\/i\u003e - the first full biography for half a century - T. G. Otte offers a sensitive and elegant portrait of our longest-serving foreign secretary (11 years on the trot): a politician whose principled pragmatism and sense of civic duty strike an appealing, if elegiac, note in 2020. -- David Reynolds * New Statesman Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eThomas Otte, in this \u003cb\u003ecompendious and elegant biography\u003c\/b\u003e, paints a portrait of a deeply moral, patient and conscientious figure who did not love the world of high politics, but felt it his duty to pursue a role in public life and did so for 48 years. ... \u003cb\u003eOtte's is a rich and rounded portrait of Grey, whom he restore[s] to his place as a humane and dutiful Liberal politician of the old school\u003c\/b\u003e -- Paul Lay * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is a reading for our times\u003c\/b\u003e. It is a stalwart defence of politics as the careful, sensitive and pragmatic management of constant change, and of political history as an education in these truths ... it makes a significant mark. -- Jonathan Parry * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ean outstanding biography, beautifully written, richly documented and persuasively argued ... Otte has given us a superb biography of this important figure. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eStatesman of Europe \u003c\/i\u003eis sub-titled \u003ci\u003eA Life of Sir Edward Grey. \u003c\/i\u003eFor the foreseeable future it is likely to be \u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003elife of Sir Edward Grey. -- David Dutton * Journal of Liberal History *\u003cbr\u003eOtte has already made a name for himself with a series of books and publications on British foreign policy, and this biography, \u003ci\u003eStatesman of Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), can be regarded as the provisional crown on his work. -- Beatrice de Graaf * NRC Handelsblad *\u003cbr\u003eEdward Grey belonged to an era when British foreign policy carried global consequences. Most importantly, in July 1914 he led international efforts to forestall war. In T.G.Otte, Grey has found a historian whose fluency, scholarship and empathy match his subject's principled and pragmatic diplomacy. Otte unravels Grey's enigmas - his marriage, his preference for rural life over politics and above all his thinking on war and peace. In \u003ci\u003eStatesman of Europe,\u003c\/i\u003e now much the fullest and most authoritative account of Grey's life, he has brought to the man the poise and balance that Grey sought for his country. -- Sir Hew Strachen","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732513435991,"sku":"9780141991474","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141991474.jpg?v=1719997215","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/statesman-of-europe-9780141991474","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}