The Great Deception:
The Secret History of the European Union
Can the EU survive?
A book by Christopher Booker & Richard North

Now newly updated and subtitled Can the EU survive?, in the aftermath of the 'no' votes in France and Holland, Booker and North examine the shift in focus away from the EU Constitution to the wider question of whether the European Union can survive in its current state.

The Great Deception shows how the most ambitious political project of our time has for more than 50 years been based on a colossal confidence trick - the systematic concealment from the peoples of Europe of what the aim of this project has always been since its inception in the late 1940s.

With all the suspense of a detective story, drawing on thousands of books, papers and official documents, many of which have only become publicly available in the past few years, the book traces how a handful of determined visionaries set out more than half a century ago to weld the countries of Europe into a single political state.

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Peter Hitchens, The Mail on Sunday:
Two brave and diligent men, Christopher Booker and Richard North, have written a superb history of the EU and of Britain's relationship with it ... Every MP, every senior civil servant, every journalist with any claim to understanding the current state of the country, should read it ... Besiege booksellers. Ask any politician or commentator who pronounces on this subject if they have read it. If they haven't, they don't know what they're talking about.