Edward Heath. Philip Ziegler

      

      Edward Heath

      The Authorised Biography

      Philip Ziegler

       Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperPress in 2010

      Copyright © 2010 Philip Ziegler

      FIRST EDITION

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      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Copyright

FOREWORD

       ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXT

ONE The Child and the Boy

TWO Balliol

THREE War

FOUR In Waiting for Westminster

FIVE The Young Member

SIX Chief Whip

SEVEN Europe: The First Round

       EIGHT Minister

       NINE Leader of the Opposition

       TEN Problems with the Party

       ELEVEN Victory

       TWELVE Making a Ministry

       THIRTEEN The Pains of Office

       FOURTEEN Europe: The Second Round

       FIFTEEN Ulster

       SIXTEEN Choppy Water

       SEVENTEEN The Approaching Storm

       EIGHTEEN Foreign Affairs

       NINETEEN Hurricane

       TWENTY Defeat on Points

       TWENTY-ONE The Uneasy Truce

       TWENTY-TWO Defeat by Knockout

       TWENTY-THREE Adjusting to a New Life

       TWENTY-FOUR The Long Sulk

       TWENTY-FIVE Phased Retreat

       TWENTY-SIX Filling in Time

       TWENTY-SEVEN Declining Years

       NOTES

       SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       Acknowledgements

       About the Publisher

       FOREWORD

      Edward Heath changed the lives of the British people more fundamentally