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How did war shape our politicians?

from Since Attlee & Churchill

In this episode, released on Remembrance Sunday, Lee and Richard discuss four titanic politicians of the twentieth century shaped by their experience of war. Clement Attlee and Harold Macmillan both served with distinction in the First World War, and Denis Healey and Edward Heath in the Second. This podcast looks at what their contribution to the war looked like - including their many brushes with death - before reflecting on the significance of their service on their political lives.In this episode, the following books are mentioned:'The British General Election of 2019' by multiple authors. Available at: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16406/9783030742560'The Land in Winter' by Andrew Miller. Available at: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16406/9781529354300***Since Attlee & Churchill is a podcast about post-war British politics - since Attlee & Churchill - and is hosted by Lee David Evans, an historian of the Conservative Party, and Richard Johnson, an historian of the Labour Party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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