Pinochet in Piccadilly
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Pinochet in Piccadilly

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Pinochet in Piccadilly

About this book

In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet was detained, intriguing questions went unanswered about his close ties with Britain. Why was Lady Thatcher so keen to defend the General? And why was Tony Blair's usually cautious government prepared to have him arrested? As Andy Beckett uncovers, the answers reside deep within the long and shadowy history of relations between Britain and Chile.

'An outstanding achievement, and mesmerically readable . . . Beckett has surely written one of the best political travelogues of the year.' Sunday Times

'I am stirred and astonished at [Andy Beckett's] brilliance, and by the imaginative sympathy with which he rekindles the arguments and emotions of a period he never knew.' Christopher Hitchens, London Review of Books

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Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Map of Chile
  5. 1: The Nitrate King
  6. 2: The Mystery of General Pinochet
  7. 3: A Scotsman in ValparaĂ­so
  8. 4: ‘The England of the Pacific’
  9. 5: Desert Capitalism
  10. 6: Jack Straw and the ‘Revolution in Liberty’
  11. 7: Allende
  12. 8: The Coup
  13. 9: In the National Stadium
  14. 10: A Story on the Radio
  15. 11: Solidarity in East Kilbride
  16. 12: ‘Thatcherite before Thatcher’
  17. 13: A British Pinochet?
  18. 14: Quite Helpful to Us in the Falklands
  19. 15: Pinochet in Piccadilly
  20. 16: His Eighty-fifth Birthday
  21. 17: London Boys
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. About the Author
  26. By the Same Author
  27. Copyright