A history of the British left and its Communist Party.

As British prime minister from 1945 to 1951, Clement Attlee built a legacy that includes today s famous and controversial National Health Service, yet he is often remembered as a rather dull political figure. Rejecting Winston Churchill s jibe that Attlee was a modest little man with plenty to be modest about, this biography makes the case that his reputation as Britain s greatest reforming prime minister is fully deserved.
Building on his earlier work on Attlee and including new research and stories, many of which are published here for the first time, Francis Beckett highlights Attlee...

John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness.

But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley s fascists, and one of Britain s three best known anti-Semites.

Yet his mother, whom he loved, was a Jew. Her ancestors were Solomons, Isaacs and Jacobsons, originally from Prussia.

He successfully hid his Jewish ancestry all his life he said his mother s family were "fisher folk from the east coast." His son, the author of this book, acclaimed political biographer and...

John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness.

But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley s fascists, and one of Britain s three best known anti-Semites.

Yet his mother, whom he loved, was a Jew. Her ancestors were Solomons, Isaacs and Jacobsons, originally from Prussia.

He successfully hid his Jewish ancestry all his life he said his mother s family were "fisher folk from the east coast." His son, the author of this book, acclaimed political biographer and...