The Guardsmen - Hardcover

Ball, S. J. (Simon J.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002571102 ISBN 13: 9780002571104

Publisher: London : HarperCollins, 2004

Synopsis

Physical description; xx, 456 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Macmillan, Harold 1894-1986. Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Marquess of 1893-1972. Chandos, Oliver Lyttelton Viscount 1893-1972. Crookshank, Harry 1893-1961.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Ball won an Open Exhibition to read history at Brasenose, Oxford. He studied for his Ph.D under David Reynolds at Christ's College, Cambridge and was head of modern history at Glasgow University.

Review:

'The Guardsmen is a magnificent achievement. By following the careers of four friends and competitors through Eton, Oxford, the Guards, and into politics, it explores British political and social history in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. It is a work of consummate scholarship, lightly borne, but above all rendered in a prose that is consistently deft and readable. Simon Ball is a historian at the height of his powers.' Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford

About this edition

• Publisher: London : HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0002571102
• ISBN 13: 9780002571104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1