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==History==
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|author=D R Thorpe
|title=Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=The great-grandson of a crofter, and son-in-law of a Duke, Harold Macmillan was born in London in 1894. Despite the well-to-do aristocratic background, his years as a young adult were marked by bad experiences in the trenches which left him with lifelong war wounds, and his early service as a Conservative Member of Parliament by the plight of the unemployed in his first constituency of Stockton. He had much in common with another future Prime Minister, Winston Churchill; both had American mothers, and both were mavericks who were elected as Conservatives but refused to toe the party line too steadfastly.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844135411</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Simon Jenkins
