"The authors offer a brilliant, sophisticated account of Eden's diplomacy during the Indochina Crisis, which most British and American scholars consider a crucial turning point in the Cold War." - Michigan War Studies Review "[The] definitive study on the subject of Eden and Indochina." -- A Blog on Winston Churchill "A lively and incisive account by two of Britain's leading international historians, this book sheds new light on many aspects of the 1954 Indochina crisis but, most importantly, draws a close link between Anthony Eden's successful diplomacy and the looming danger of thermo-nuclear war." -- John W. Young, Professor of History, University of Nottingham, UK "Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones have written a meticulously researched and eminently readable account of arguably the high-point of British influence in the so-called Anglo-American "special relationship" during the Cold War, when Anthony Eden played a vital part in preventing a possible world conflict." -- Geoffrey Warner, Professor of Modern History and Former Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK " Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis brilliantly upends the view of Eisenhower and Dulles as responsible stewards of nuclear weapons. Comprehensively researched and elegantly written, it convincingly argues that Anthony Eden's shrewd and heroic efforts at the 1954 Geneva Conference saved the world from the war that the unbridled nuclear adventurism and brinksmanship of the Eisenhower administration was likely to cause." -- Martin J.

Sherwin, University Professor at George Mason University, is author (with Kai Bird) of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, recipient of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.