Anthony Eden, who served as Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, was one of the central political figures of the twentieth century. With good looks, charm, and a Military Cross award from the Great War, as well as a degree from Oxford, he had a secure electoral district from the age of twenty. He became Foreign Secretary at the age of 38 and was the first British politician to meet Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. His dramatic resignation from Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet in 1938, described here in greater detail than ever before, had an international impact. This innovative book examines his controversial life and narrates the inside story of the Munich Crisis (1938), the Geneva Conference (1954), Eden's battles with Churchill over modernizing the post-war Conservative Party, and his rivalry with Butler and Macmillan in the early 1950s, culminating in a fascinating analysis of the Suez Crisis.