Ernest Bevin by Alan Bullock
This new edition looks at the miner who rose to become Foreign Secretary in the Attlee government; influential trade unionist during the General Strike and creator of the Transport and General Workers' Union; Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition government and creator of the Bevin Boys, young men conscripted to work down the pits - Ernest Bevin is one of the true giants of 20th-century political history.