Ernest Bevin : Labour's Churchill / Andrew Adonis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adonis, Andrew, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951.

Bevin, Ernest.

Statesmen--Great Britain--Biography.

Statesmen.

Great Britain.

Politicians--Great Britain--Biography.

Politicians.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1936-1945.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Biteback Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

As a statesman, Ernest Bevin is second only to Churchill in impact and legacy. Born in abject poverty to a single mother, and with virtually no formal education, Bevin went on to become the founder of the largest trade union in British history and then made it to the top of politics and government. As Minister of Labour from 1940 to 1945, he was the nation's wartime mobiliser-in-chief. Clement Attlee, Churchill's Deputy Prime Minister, kept the wartime coalition in good administrative order, but it was the charismatic Bevin who really drove the domestic war effort. As post-war Foreign Secretary, Bevin was Britain's last world power envoy and did much to thwart Stalin's Soviet Union and to prevent Europe sinking back into conflict. No one did more to stabilise and democratise Europe and to pave the way for the European Union. In this major, wide-ranging new biography, Andrew Adonis brings to life one of our greatest statesmen - a politician whose light is often unjustly hidden beneath that of his more celebrated contemporaries.

Contents:

Introduction

Orphan

Dockers' KC

General Strike

Keynes

Attlee

Ernie

War

Victory

Stalin

Failures

Bevin today.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

1785905988

9781785905988

OCLC:

1133128352