Too Obviously Cleverer
Ferdinand Mount: Harold Macmillan, 8 September 2011
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan
by D.R. Thorpe.
Pimlico, 887 pp., £16.99, September 2011,978 1 84413 541 7 Show More
by D.R. Thorpe.
Pimlico, 887 pp., £16.99, September 2011,
The Macmillan Diaries Vol. II: Prime Minister and After 1957-66
edited by Peter Catterall.
Macmillan, 758 pp., £40, May 2011,978 1 4050 4721 0 Show More
edited by Peter Catterall.
Macmillan, 758 pp., £40, May 2011,
“... back to his new wife, Wanda, when she came in, with tears running down his face. This is how D.R. Thorpe tells the story, eloquently and elegantly, as he does everything in this exemplary biography, which complements if it does not entirely supplant Alistair Horne’s two-volume official Life; Horne is better on the military, ... ”