Jean Louis Thieriot, a French historian and lawyer, narrates the life of Margaret Thatcher as the fate of an extraordinary woman who influenced the course of world events. “The Iron Lady”, “Churchill in a skirt”, “the world gendarme of anti-communism”, the targeted initiator of Gorbachev’s perestroika in the USSR, the gravedigger of the Eastern Bloc and the Warsaw Pact (as the author shows and Margaret herself believes). At the same time, she is an ardent patriot of Great Britain, a devout defender of its identity, a nationally-minded politician, the first woman prime minister who rose from the bottom and devoted her life to the embodiment of the idea of the prosperity of her fatherland, and in this capacity she cannot but command respect. This book is written from the perspective of a Westerner who is historically wary of Russia, which allows for a broader look at recent events in our country and in the world, and for a healthy ambitious person it can become a textbook on ascent to the highest levels of power and a warning catalog of temptations and traps. who are lying in wait for him. As Thatcher writes in her memoirs, she now lives “waiting... when the time comes to appear before the court of God,” which every person in power should remember: to whom much is given, much will be required.