G.M.TREVELYAN: A LIFE IN HISTORY.

George Trevelyan was the most famous British historian of the century. Yet today his works are largely ignored. In this spirited study David Cannadine addresses Trevelyan's critics and demonstrates his role as a major historical personality who desrves to be recognise and understood for what he was: one of the towering figures in the political, cultural and intellectual life in Britain in the ages of Asquith, Baldwin and Churchill.