‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review
On the centenary of Britain’s first Labour government, three recent histories cast a sympathetic eye over Ramsay MacDonald’s nine months in Number 10.
Clement Attlee
Cold War Clem
Fiercely anti-Communist, Clement Attlee found Britain’s intelligence agencies to be invaluable tools.
Attlee, Bevin and Britain’s Cold War
Caught between the end of empire and the birth of NATO, Britain's postwar Labour government played a key role in the early stages of the Cold War.
Attlee and Truman
Jerry Brookshire shows that the ‘special relationship’ in 1945-51 was in safe, and curiously similar, hands.
Mr Attlee
'The dullest man in English politics (who) looked more pathetic than dangerous' wrote an American journalist in 1941, yet with Churchill, Attlee dominated politics in the 1940s and his name is increasingly evoked in the current battle for the soul of the Labour Party.