Fear in Those Blue Eyes
David Runciman: Thatcher in Her Bubble, 3 December 2015
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography Vol. II: Everything She Wants
by Charles Moore.
Allen Lane, 821 pp., £30, October 2015,978 0 7139 9288 5 Show More
by Charles Moore.
Allen Lane, 821 pp., £30, October 2015,
“... the discussions. ‘Does anyone imagine that Mr Gorbachev would be prepared to talk at all if the West had already disarmed?’ she asked her audience, entirely confident of the answer. But in the event something unexpected happened. Though she liked Reagan and was readily charmed by him, Thatcher had always been a little suspicious of his occasional flights ... ”