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Won numerous prizes; Whitbread, Wolfson, Yorkshire Post 'Fascinating. ... Sympathetic but not uncritical ... very well written, highly perceptive and at times very amusing. ... A superb book.' Robert Blake 'Wonderful biography. He writes not only with enviable ease and grace but with even more enviable psychological insight. ... This is historical biography as it should be written.' J.H. Plumb 'A quite astonishingly informative and enlightening account' The Good Book Guide

About the Author

Kenneth Rose, CBE is an eminent historian and prize-winning biographer.