Supermac

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Great-grandson of a crofter & son-in-law of a Duke Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was both complex as a person & influential as a politican. Marked by terrible experiences in the trenches in the First World War & by his work as an MP during the Depression he was a Tory rebel
- an outspoken backbencher opposing the economic policies of the 1930s & the appeasement policies of his own government. Churchill gave him responsibility during the Second World War with executive command as Viceroy of the Mediterranean. After the War in opposition Macmillan was one of the principal reformers of the Conservatives & after 1951 back in government served in several important posts before becoming Prime Minister after the Suez Crisis. Supermac examines key events including the controversy over the Cossacks repatriation the Suez Crisis Youve Never Had It So Good the Winds of Change the Cuban Missile Crisis & the Profumo Scandal. The culmination of thirty-five years of research into this period by one of our most respected historians this book gives an unforgettable portrait of a turbulent age. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.