Taylor Downing: 1983 - Z25 [2019] paperback Condition:New hypocrites and institutionalised corruption

hypocrites and institutionalised corruption

one a rank outsider and the other a fourteen-year-old boy who rebelled against his own father

as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient pattern of war and subjugation

intrigue and battle threaten to engulf Westeros

and - perhaps worst of all - Mary Queen of Scots' fabled beauty starts to work on the Tudor loyalist

Taylor Downing: 1983 - Z25 [2019] paperback Condition:New hypocrites and institutionalised corruption'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw. Indeed, his narrative is so persuasive that by the time you are about two thirds through, it takes some effort to remind yourself that the Third World War never happened' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 1983 was a supremely dangerous year even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile