Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb (1911 - 2001) was a Great British historian. / This new memoir depicts a startlingly reve. / This is a very personal account written by Neil McKendrick, a fellow historian, a fellow Master of a Cambridge college and one his oldest and closest friends, who knew Plumb from his early days to his dying hours some fifty years after they first met.
This memoir attempts to lift that cloak.
He led an extraordinary Life of startling contrasts, much of it cloaked in secrecy.
Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb (1911 - 2001) was a Great British historian