Great Contemporaries

xi, 250, [2] pp. Black-and-white photographs. A collection of biographical vignettes of important men of the early twentieth century, written by Churchill from 1929-1937. A reprint of the original 1937 work. Biographies include: The Earl of Rosebery; The Ex-Kaiser; George Bernard Shaw; Joseph Chamberlain; Sir John French; John Morley; [Paul von] Hindenburg; Boris Savinkov; Herbert Henry Asquith; [T.E.] Lawrence of Arabia; 'F.E.' First Earl of Birkenhead; Marshal Foch; Leon Trotsky, Alias Bronstein; Alfonso XIII; Douglas Haig; Arthur James Balfour; Hitler and His Choice; George Nathaniel Curzon; Philip Snowden; Clemenceau; King George V; Lord Fisher and His Biographer; Charles Stewart Parnell; 'B.-P.' [Lord Baden-Powell]; Roosevelt from Afar. This edition includes a foreword by Tom Hartman.