Macmillan 1894-1956, Vol. 1 and Vol 2 1957-1986 of the Official Biography By Alistair Horne
Macmillan 1894-1956, Vol. 1 and Vol 2 1957-1986 of the Official Biography By Alistair Horne
-Macmillan 1894-1956, Vol. 1 of the Official Biography By Alistair Horne
Hardcover
ISBN 0333276914
Publisher: Macmillan London Ltd 1988
Used - Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The cover have some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
Although known for his unflappability, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was actually highly strung from childhood. He was a solitary adolescent, molded by his forbidding American mother from Indiana and his publisher father, descendant of Scottish crofters. As Horne's magisterial, engrossing biography reveals, Macmillan suffered a severe nervous breakdown in 1931; it took years for this emotional romantic to remake himself into a stern pragmatist. This first volume of an authorized yet highly candid portrait by the author of A Savage War of Peace climaxes with details of Macmillan's role in the 1956 Suez Canal crisis in which he secretly advanced a plan to involve Israel in a joint attack on Egypt. Crammed with revelations, Horne's robust profile divulges that Macmillan's wife Dorothy had a romantic affair that nearly wrecked their marriage and lasted until her death. Horne portrays Macmillan as Churchill's right-hand man during the darkest days of WW II, hopping from meetings with Ike and de Gaulle to Finland and Casablanca. He rebuts charges that Macmillan conspired to repatriate and thus send to their doom tens of thousands of Cossacks, White Russians and Yugoslavs after the war. Photos.
-MacMillan 1957-1986 Vol 2 of the Official Biography By Alistair Horne
Hardcover
ISBN 0333496213
Publisher: Macmillan London Ltd 1989
Used - Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The cover have some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
The authorized biography's conclusion spans the time from Macmillan's stint as British prime minister (1957-1963) to his death in 1986. "Horne makes liberal use of Macmillan's letters and diaries, which shed new light on his premiership years and provide blunt evaluations of world leaders including Khrushchev, de Gaulle, Adenauer and Kennedy," reported PW. Photos.
