In this book, acclaimed author Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds provides the first full biography of Bevan in over two decades.

The volume closes with Labour's landslide election victory of 1945, and Bevan's appointment as Minister of Health.

Michael Foot's two-volume biography of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan (1897-1960) - arguably Britain's greatest socialist, indelibly associated with the founding of the National Health Service - is one of the major political biographies of the last ...

"" "" ""The first volume covers Bevan's life from his birth in 1897 to his entry into Atlee's Cabinet in 1945: the second covers his years from 1945 to his death in 1960.

A biography of Welsh politician Aneurin Bevan, who was the British health minister from 1948 to 1951.

Continues by tracing his career through the period of the Spanish Civil War, the Popular Front campaigns and later tells of his unique role in the Second World War.

First published London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1962.