British People of World War II - Alan Turing, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Clement Attlee, Barnes Wallis, Edward Spears, Geoffrey Pyke (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 90. Chapters: Alan Turing, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Clement Attlee, Barnes Wallis, Edward Spears, Geoffrey Pyke, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, William Howard Livens, A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, Duff Cooper, Leonard Hussey, Herbert Morrison, Millvina Dean, John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, Anne Lenner, Leslie Weatherhead, Fred Copeman, Frank Foley, Reginald Victor Jones, Kay Summersby, Eileen Nearne, Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos, Norman Baillie-Stewart, Leon Greenman, Tommy Brown, Bevin Boys, W. D. M. Bell, Pearl Witherington, Manci Howard, Lady Howard of Effingham, William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, George Samuel Sewell, Nevile Henderson, Dudley William Mason, Henry Tibbs, John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin, Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal, Blanche Charlet, Rolf Weinberg, Walter H. Thompson, Gyles Mackrell, James Lonsdale-Bryans, Philip Vassar Hunter, Hannah Billig, James William Slessor Marr, Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, George Preston Stronach, Joan Bartlett, Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers, Charles Pawsey, Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester, Brandon Moss, Marguerite Knight, James Hamilton. Excerpt: Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC (7 August 1886 - 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars. He was born of British parents at 7 chaussee de la Muette in the fashionable district of Passy in Paris on 7 August 1886; France would remain the land of his childhood. His parents, Charles McCarthy Spiers and Melicent Marguerite Lucy Hack, were British residents of France. His paternal grandfather was the noted lexicographer, Alexander Spiers, who had published ...