![]() ![]() The story of Attlee is also much more dramatic than he himself ever made out - and not without an element of heroism. It is difficult to think of another individual through whom one can better tell the story of how Britain changed from the high imperialism of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897, through two world wars, the great depression, the nuclear age and the Cold War, and the transition from empire into commonwealth. It is also more emblematic, and more representative, of Britain in his time. ![]() Not only does Clement Attlee's life deserve to have a rightful place alongside the Churchill legend. The gallons of ink spilled on Winston Churchill - and the huge appetite for books about him - have created something of an imbalance in our understanding of twentieth-century Britain. ![]()
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