Statesman of Europe
A Life of Sir Edward Grey
Thomas G. Otte
'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world....
Publish Date
2020-11-26T00:00:00.000Z
2020-11-26T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.32
ISBN
0241413362
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2021-02-23T07:01:27.000Z
Times like these require good books, and here is one I enjoyed. Sir Edward Grey belonged to an era when British foreign policy carried global consequences. Most importantly, in July 1914 he led international efforts to forestall war. – source