All Out War, Tim Shipman
All Out War, Tim Shipman
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All Out War

Author: Tim Shipman

Narrator: Rupert Farley

Unabridged: 32 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/03/2016


Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr ‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ Guardian The only book to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the EU. This is the acclaimed inside story of the EU referendum in 2016 that takes you behind the scenes of the most extraordinary episode in British politics since the Second World War. With unparalleled access to all key players, this is a story of calculation, attempted coups and people torn between principles and loyalty. It is a book about our leaders and their closest aides, the decisions they make, how and why they make them and how they feel when they turn out to be so wrong. In , Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how and why David Cameron chose to take the biggest political gamble of his life, and why he lost.

About Tim Shipman

Tim Shipman is the political editor of the Sunday Times. He has been a national newspaper journalist since 1997 and in sixteen years writing about politics he has also reported from Westminster for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Express.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on February 17, 2021

This book seems already likely to stand as the definitive account of the political events before, during and after the Brexit vote. The book explicitly concentrates on the actions and thoughts of the key UK political players. It “begins from the premise that the actions of key individuals, at hinge......more

Goodreads review by Louisa on October 15, 2017

Reading AOW underlined what is for me the main problem with a kindle: throwing it at a wall to relieve your feelings rapidly becomes expensive. Consequently this book took me the best part of eight months to get through, and I still hate everybody in it.......more

Goodreads review by Blair on February 16, 2021

Attempting to get into audiobooks #1 32 HOURS OF BREXIT. That was a journey. I’m not quite a convert to audiobooks. Compared to my typical reading speed, they’re just so painfully slow. Then again, I can’t read a physical book or ebook while working, walking or cooking, so they have that going for the......more

Goodreads review by Andy on February 25, 2017

If you want to get a handle on Brexit, how it came about and the campaigns to leave and remain in the EU, this book by Tim Shipman is an absolute must-read. The author gets under the skin of perhaps the most important political issue of recent times, with impeccably sourced insights both on and off......more

Goodreads review by Kumar on January 06, 2019

I considered leaving my job to be a political strategist......more


Quotes

‘I can't imagine a more even-handed or better sourced, all points-of-view account of the biggest story in British politics since WWII … A fine book’ ANDREW MARR, Sunday Times 'Shipman's dispatches are a must read if you want to understand what happened beneath the smog and beyond the noise of the conflict’ NICK ROBINSON ‘Shipman is brilliantly qualified to write the inside story of the referendum, with his unrivalled access to all the players’ JOHN RENTOUL ‘One of the best political journalists of his era … It’s impossible to fully comprehend what happened on June 23 and the ensuing two weeks without reading this book … Brilliant’ – IAIN DALE, LBC ‘Shipman’s book is by far the best. It is a detailed, often pitch-perfect account that delivers the tale with an infectious sense of human drama – no mean feat, given the task of completing the whole thing so quickly’ JOHN HARRIS, New Statesman ‘The essential account … Shipman has spoken to every key individual to produce the definitive first draft of history, a comprehensive yet impartial study of how Brexit won’ Financial Times ‘Excellent … Shipman convincingly marshals fresh evidence to prove what we already half-knew’ WILL HUTTON, Observer ‘The best political book of the year was undoubtedly Tim Shipman’s masterly ‘All Out War’’ New Statesman ‘Stonkingly good: if you’re vaguely interested in politics buy it. It won’t be bettered’ FRASER NELSON ‘Thorough, comprehensive and utterly gripping. It is hard to imagine a better first draft of history’ – Economist ‘Undoubtedly the British political book of the year’ ALEX MASSIE ‘Shipman, one of the most brilliant, best informed and well-connected journalists in Westminster, has written a superlative book which does full justice to a momentous time’ PETER OBORNE ‘Don’t think any of the quotes do justice to quite how good it is. A superb work of reporting and storytelling, and sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ ANDREW SPARROW