Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age.
To Disraeli, his antagonist was an \'unprincipled maniac\' characterised by an \'extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and s.
The vitriolic duel between Gladstone and Disraeli was nothing less than a battle to lead the richest and most powerful nation on earth.
Victorian Britain ruled the oceans and vast territories \'on which the sun never set\'.
Their intense hatred was ideological and deeply personal.
Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age