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...The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd Viking, £25, 448 pages Margaret MacMillan is emeritus professor of international history, University of Oxford Join our online book group...
...The period covered includes the Cuban missile crisis, the Profumo affair, the assassination of John F Kennedy, the fall of Harold Macmillan and the brief premiership of Alec Douglas-Home before the election...
...and Margaret Thatcher, who sold off council homes, as the snake charmers of Tory voting....
...He begins with the so-called golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, when the prime minister Harold Macmillan reflected the country’s postwar boom in his “never had it so good” remark....
...Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger, Allen Lane £25/Penguin Press $36, 528 pages Margaret MacMillan is professor emeritus of international history at the University of Oxford Join...
...Margaret McGirr Greenwich, CT, US...
...In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History, by Dominic Lieven, Allen Lane £35/ Viking $40, 528 pages Margaret MacMillan is professor emeritus of international history at the University of Oxford...
...For those such as Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher, old enough to have seen the horrors of Nazism, attitudes were influenced by an attachment to Zionism and Israel....
...Inevitably, the debate has been dominated by the modern Conservative party’s most successful leader, Margaret Thatcher....
...The complex interplay of human agency with what British prime minister Harold Macmillan once called “events” is Kershaw’s prism for an insightful series of essays about 12 exceptional leaders who stood at...
...Margaret Thatcher survived the first challenge to her leadership in 1989 by a much greater margin (314 to 33 votes) and was out in less than a year....
...Stalin’s War: A New History of the Second World War, by Sean McMeekin, Allen Lane, RRP£40/Basic Books, RRP$19.99, 832 pages Margaret MacMillan is emeritus professor of international history, University...
...For the likes of Wilson, Blair or Margaret Thatcher there were no never-ending comparisons with predecessors. Indeed Blair’s break with the past was overt. His party became “New” by name....
...By contrast, as Margaret Macmillan, the eminent historian, points out, this time “the west seemed prepared and to have actually thought through how it would respond”....
...Harold Macmillan, prime minister from 1957 to 1963, was an Etonian and a classicist, but he had fought at the Somme and seen mass unemployment....
...Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King, Pan Macmillan £14.99/Grove Atlantic $27, 240 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
..., Margaret Thatcher, Blair and Theresa May....
...‘The Fall of Boris Johnson’, his second book, is published by Pan Macmillan on November 24 Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Margaret Thatcher was a grocer’s daughter, Ted Heath’s parents a carpenter and a maid, while John Major’s father performed in vaudeville. From 2005, Etonians reclaimed the leadership....
...Ronald Reagan did not ask Margaret Thatcher before invading the Caribbean island of Grenada, a British Commonwealth member state. The US has always counted interests ahead of sentiment....
...Meanwhile, in The Sister (Macmillan, June), Sung-Yoon Lee promises to shine a light on another great North Korean mystery, Kim Yo Jong, sibling of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un....
...Churchill, Eden and Heath had no commercial experience at all while Macmillan and Sir John Major held temporary admin positions in already successful companies....
...In a series of elegant essays adapted from her BBC Reith Lectures, the distinguished historian Margaret MacMillan sets out to investigate many of the mysteries outlined by Alexievich....
...Clips: Reuters Margaret MacMillan’s book War: How Conflict Shaped Us is published by Random House See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
...Since Margaret Thatcher took over the party in 1975, it has shunned stimulating demand through spending, opting instead for tax cuts....
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