Titlebook: Harold Macmillan: Aspects of a Political Life; Richard Aldous (Lecturer in Modern History),Sabine Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division

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Introduction,s a trait Harold Macmillan possessed in abundance. Behind the panache and elegant wit lay a dogged relentlessness in the face of disappointment. Like a heavyweight boxer who will not fall down, Macmillan absorbed punch after punch throughout his career but always kept going. In the end it was not sc

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Macmillan: a View from the Foreign Office,own affectionately to his staff as Uncle Harold, to refresh memory and sort out fact from accrued fiction. Indeed, one judges a book about someone who, like Harold Macmillan, played a central role in one’s professional life, by whether the author gets right, in fact and judgement, the events of whic

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,The Cost of Myth: Macmillan and the Illusion of the ‘Special Relationship’,ticularly tense time for Anglo-American relations. There were divisions over policy in Bosnia, a US initiative to send an envoy to Northern Ireland, the development of trading relations through the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), and even the European development of the Airbus. Major’s Conse

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,Opportunity Knocks: Macmillan at the Treasury, 1955–7,of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in the difficulty of separating any discernible economic policy that bore Macmillan’s own stamp from the use of the office itself as a springboard to the Premiership. It is worth remembering just how minor a position Macmillan held in the Churchill Cabinet of 1951

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,‘,’: Macmillan and France from Algiers to Rambouillet, recent biographies, in which no reference to the French can be found. Yet dealings with France contributed significantly to the start and the end of Harold Macmillan’s ministerial career. His war-time success in handling the Free French in Algiers represented Macmillan’s first, significant achievem

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Pragmatism versus Principle? Macmillan and Germany,f Harold Macmillan’s premiership was no exception. He never saw in Germany a partner of similar significance to the United States, the Soviet Union or, indeed, France. However, his view of Germany changed over time and, partly as a function of this, the development of relations between Britain and G