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May 2nd 2045.Lestoq,an overweight,asthmatic,Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford,working for the Times,wakes up with a hangover and the sexiest secret policewoman in Europol.In the course of the next week he discovers that Aachen Referendum which ratified the Aachen Treaty of Complete Union and thus createdthe European superstate thirty years before,was rigged by a conspiracy within the European Commission.The Union is now xenophobic,corrupt and tyrannical.The royal family left Britain in 2016,and King William V of New Zealand is returning to London to make a speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of VE day.Lestoq has to get evidence of the referendum rigging-the Aachen Memorandum-to the king for him to tell the world in a huge rally at Hyde Park.No easy task,as a dark family secret,a murdered father and meetings with the English Resistance Movement are only a few of the obstacles which stand in his way...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #518697 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

About the Author
Andrew Roberts took a first in Modern History at Cambridge. He has been a professional historian since the publication of his life of Lord Halifax , The Holy Fox, in 1991, followed by Eminent Churchillians in 1994 . He contributes regularly to the Sunday Telegraph. Lives in Knightsbridge, London, and has two children. His Salisbury won the Wolfson History Prize in 2000. His books include Napoleon and Wellington in 2001, Hitler and Churchill (based on BBC-2 series) in 2003. What Might Have Been (editor) in 2004. His History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 1900 was published in 2006 and won the Walter Bagehot Prize .

Customer Reviews

A Glorious Euroskeptic Nightmare
This is a glorious Eurosceptic nightmare twisted into a fast paced thriller. To some the idea of John Redwood being locked up in Spandu Gaol in Berlin ( previous residents included the Nazi Deputy leader Hess) for "activities incompatible with the security of the Union", would seem a very good idea. Whatever your views of John Redwood or the European Union this book is inspired in its detail-Waterloo Station is now Maastricht Terminus-and in its depiction of modes and mores of a European Union Superstate. But above all it is unputdownable and great fun. To some Eurosceptics it is a warning-but they should themselves be warned that the book has already obtained cult status among young EU officials in Brussels. If there is to be a superstate in the 21st Century, Andrew Roberts card is already marked!!

Brilliant political thriller
England 2045. Since 2015, the year of the for ever final referendum, England has been demoted to a region in the USE (United States of Europe). Political correctness is very much in. Well known landmarks such as Waterloo Station and Trafalgar Square have been renamed Maastricht Terminus and Delors Square. The hero of the book, fat, astmatic Horatio Lestoq gets wind of a sinister plot behind the referendum. And from here the action develops. The book is superb and hilariously funny, too. Read it before your country is engulfed by the superstate that EU is developing into. High praise to Andrew Roberts for this tour de force.

Ein ausgezeichnetes Buch!
Margaret Thatcher assassinated by pro-EU forces, the House of Windsor living in exile in New Zealand, John Redwood smuggled into Free Norway in the boot of a car, fish and chips banned, and worst of all everyone dancing to German trance music...it's all here and more! Andrew Robert's view of the corrupt, socialist and politically correct United States of Europe is written with wit, panache and a passion for the subject. My hope is that in writing this prophetic novel, Roberts will have played his part in preventing the prophesy coming true. If not, then I'm fleeing to Free Norway, and 2045 can't come fast enough!