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Great Contemporaries
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Publisher: Thornton Butterworth Format: Hardcover with Jacket
Published: 1937/10/04 Pagination: (1) - (335)
Edition: 1st Woods: A43(a)
Impression: 1st Cohen: A105.1
Quantity Issued: 5000 Language: English
Printed In: Translator: Not Applicable
Country of Issue: UK Issue Price: 21s. 0d

The first edition contained 21 biographical essays, all of which had been previously published in newspaper/magazine form. The essays are listed below, along with original publication venues and dates.

Contents

  • The Earl of Rosebery [Pall Mall October 1929]
  • The Ex-Kaiser [Strand November 1930]
  • George Bernard Shaw [Pall Mall August 1929]
  • Joseph Chamberlain [Pall Mall February 1930]
  • Sir John French [Pall Mall January 1930]
  • John Morley [Pall Mall November 1929]
  • Hindenburg [Daily Mail 2 August 1934]
  • Boris Savinkov [Pall Mall February 1929]
  • Herbert Henry Asquith [Pall Mall August 1928]
  • Lawrence of Arabia [News of the World 26 May 1935]
  • 'F. E.' First Earl of Birkenhead [News of the World 1 March 1936]
  • Marshal Foch [Pall Mall July 1929]
  • Leon Trotsky, alias Bronstein [Pall Mall December 1929]
  • Alfonso XIII [Strand July 1931]
  • Douglas Haig [Pall Mall November 1928]
  • Arthur James Balfour [Strand April 1931]
  • Hitler and his Choice [Strand November 1935]
  • George Nathaniel Curzon [Pall Mall January 1929]
  • Philip Snowden [Sunday Pictorial 2 August 1931]
  • Clemenceau [Strand December 1930]
  • King George V [News of the World 26 January 1936]

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