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Title: Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of Lord Allen of Hurtwood (editor)
Publishing data: UK (Longmans), 1965, hardback.
Pages: 442
Summary: The story, told through Clifford Allen's own letters, notes and other documents, of a Cambridge-educated Socialist who was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during the First World Was, and was later active in international affairs, first as a strong supporter of appeasement, and then as a staunch opponent of Nazi persecution.
Notes About This Book: Includes biographical notes of the characters mentioned in the documents, and eleven photographs
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Title: Servant of India (editor)
Publishing data: UK (Longmans), 1966, hardback.
Pages: 266
Summary: A documentary study of British imperial rule in India from 1905 to 1910, as told through the correspondence and diaries if the Viceroy's Private Secretary, Sir James Dunlop Smith.
Notes About This Book: Includes biographical notes of the characters mentioned in the documents. Seventeen photographs, and five maps specially prepared by the author. Preface and epilogue by Lord Butler of Saffron Walden (R.A. Butler), a nephew of Sir James Dunlop Smith.
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Title: Lloyd George: Great Lives Observed (editor)
Publishing data: USA (Prentice Hall), 1968, hardback and paperback.
Pages: 182
Summary: A documentary study of the career of David Lloyd George, part one through his own words, part two through the words of his contemporaries, part three, in retrospect.
Notes About This Book: Part of the Prentice-Hall Great Lives Observed series. Introduction and afterword by the author. Contains a two-page chronology of the life of Lloyd George.
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Title: Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat, 1869-1941.
Publishing data: UK (Heinemann), 1973, hardback
Pages: 496
Summary: The biography of a British diplomat who was Ambassador in Berlin when Hitler came to power. Tells the story of his youth, and of all his diplomatic appointments, through private letters and diplomatic documents.
Notes About This Book: Biographical notes compiled by the author about everyone mentioned in the book. Four-page list of sources. Four maps drawn specially for this volume, and one contemporary map from the Peel Royal Commission on Palestine, of which Rumbold was a member. 45 photographs
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Title: Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time
Publishing data: UK (Macmillan); USA (Viking-Elizabeth Sifton Books), hardback 1986; paperback 1989 (UK paperback, Penguin).
Pages: 467
Summary: The story, from birth to freedom, of a leading campaigner for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate, who spend nine years as a prisoner of the Soviet regime.
Translations: Hebrew, Dutch
Notes About This Book: Contains the full text of many of his letters while he was a prisoner; 58 photographs; a 9-page bibliography of works consulted; 2 maps compiled for the author for this volume; list of annual emigration of Soviet Jews from 1951 to 1985; list of former Prisoners of Zion still refused exit visas in on 12 February 1986; list of all Jews held prisoner on 12 February 1986 for demanding the right to emigrated.
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