Great Britons. 20th century lives

GREAT BRITONS is an illustrated biographical dictionary recording the lives of 645 men and women, all of them British subjects, who died between 1915 and 1980 and whose mark on their contemporaries and in their chosen careers has been of exceptional interest and significance. The people represented here come from all walks of life and span more than a century of modern British history; also included are those few ‘black sheep’ whose exploits or failures are too firmly enmeshed in the fabric of the twentieth century to allow their exclusion.This is a book for the general reader in search of the immediate British past, for the school-leaver and student too young to remember the characters and events of earlier generations, and for the journalist, speech-writer, and anyone needing a straightforward, reliable, and readable source of biographical facts.