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dropbear123 t1_j7ucago wrote

Reply to comment by No-Strength-6805 in Bookclub and Sources Wednesday! by AutoModerator

Probably Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by T.G. Otte which is about the British Foreign Secretary in the years before the First World War (and up to 1916). Pretty long, something like 700 pages of main writing. It had a lot on his personal life, the inner workings of the Liberal party as well as his foriegn policy and decision making.

Runners up are The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshall, the Power Behind Five English Thrones by Thomas Asbridge and Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie (all of his biographies are very good)

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No-Strength-6805 t1_j7uwgug wrote

Have you heard anything on a biography of Ernest Bevin union leader,Labour's activest and later Foreign Minister only thing I've found is 3 vol. Biography by Alan Bullock from 60s or 70s?

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dropbear123 t1_j7v145h wrote

No I haven't. The only other thing I could find is Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill by Andrew Adonis which I haven't read. The author is a Labour politician/lord with strong views about certain areas of foreign policy so isn't really writing from a position of neutrality.

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