Philip Ziegler

The invisible man

Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds’s study of Clement Attlee is a specimen of that now relatively rare but still far from endangered species, the ‘political’ biography.

issue 31 July 2010

  • Attlee: A Life in Politics

    Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds

    I.B. Tauris, pp. 329

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