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Brief Lives
Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
In this eclectic selection of biographical sketches Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the twentieth century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Anthony Eden are reassessed and re-evalued, while record breakers such as Sir Edmund Hillary and Roger Bannister are shown to be far more than just their achievements.
Further afield, W. F. Deedes...
Details
224 pages
Imprint: Pan
Reviews
‘Concise, wise and compassionate’ Jason Cowley, New Statesman