"Stephens ... has written easily the best - as well as the best informed - modern summary of Britain's still brilliant but now increasingly beleaguered prime minister." -- Washington Post on Tony Blair

"If anybody asks me, now, which is the best place to start reading on the kaleidoscope figure of Blair, I shall simply reply "Stephens"." -- Peter Hennessy, Financial Times on Tony Blair "Today Tony Blair enjoys a great lustre in America than in his own country. And yet readers may end this well-informed and sympathetic book wondering how long it can be before the bloom fades." -- New York Times on Tony Blair

"Admirably lucid and measured, as well as studded with sharp pen portraits of the key players, Britain Alone gives us the fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britain's fateful, tragi-comic road to Brexit." -- David Kynaston

"Compelling.. Stephens tell the story with a journalist's eye for the interplay of personality and policy-making, backed by a deep knowledge of Britain's post-war history." -- Lawrence Freedman

"No-one is likely to write this modern history of decline with more brio and comprehensive insight." -- Chris Patten

"Having talked to many of the leading players over decades, Philip Stephens gives us a ringside seat at the drama of how Britain lost, found and lost again its post-imperial international role. Sad and fascinating." -- Timothy Garton Ash

"A compelling, informative and readable history book." -- Financial Times

"Philip Stephens' history of British foreign policy since World War II will not be bettered for many years. Much more readable than most works of history, it is also more intellectually rigorous than a lot of journalism. The anecdotes are telling and the judgments judicious, while the reportage is often based on first-hand observation." -- Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform