An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

11. Brexit

December 28, 2020

Description

As Britain leaves the EU, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook look at the best & worst comparisons from history that have been made to Brexit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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Books Referenced

Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire

Author: Brendan Simms

Context:

Mentioned as a 'great history of the Seven Years' War' that is very long ('about 7,000 pages'). The hosts discuss Simms' argument that Britain's focus was always Europe rather than empire, contrasting with the isolationist narrative they were discussing.

The Aachen Memorandum

Author: Andrew Roberts

Context:

Described as a novel published in the mid-1990s with a Germanic gothic script title, about 'a plot for a fourth Reich or something like that.' Mentioned in the context of discussing comparisons between the EU and Nazi Germany made by some Brexiteers.