29 JULY 2000, Page 30

SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE WEEK

The Invention Of Peace

by Michael Howard

As Michael Howard, one of Britain's most respected historians, thoughtfully picks his way through the complex negotiations throughout European history which led to the brief eruption of peace into an otherwise uninterrupted state of war, he hopes that "Kant was right, and that, whatever else may happen, 'a seed of enlightenment' will always survive."

`... If The Invention Of Peace were made compulsory reading for every member of every government in the world his hopes might be more easily justified and his worst fears proved unfounded:

Philip Ziegler, The Spectator

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