The Aachen Memorandum

The Aachen Memorandum

by Andrew Roberts (Author)

Synopsis

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...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Orion
Published: 02 Sep 1996

ISBN 10: 0752803492
ISBN 13: 9780752803494
Book Overview: Brillant debut novel from an outstanding young historian. An enthralling and timely novel to capture the Euro phobic mood Andrew Roberts is a brillant young historian, which gives The Aachen Memorandum excellent background detail. Witty, satirical and fun...thoroughly entertaining thriller...Roberts has written a cliff hanger which keeps the reader guessing until the very end thought provoking and hugely enjoyable...Every bit as ingenious as Fatherland, The Aachen Memorandum must confirm Roberts as a serious writer ...Spectator

Author Bio
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 .