PIERS LUDLOW British Academy Junior Research Fellow in Modern History, Balliol College, OxfordSCOTT LUCAS Head of American and Canadian Studies, University of BirminghamSIR CURTIS KEEBLE former Ambassador to the Soviet UnionJOHN SUBRITZKY Policy Officer, New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign AffairsNICK CROWSON Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary British History, University of BirminghamRICHARD LAMB Public Record OfficeSIR OLIVER WRIGHT former Ambassador to Copenhagen, Bonn and WashingtonCHARLES LYSAGHT former Barrister, Lecturer and Legal Adviser in DublinLEWIS JOHNMAN Quintin Hogg Research Fellow in History, University of WestminsterSABINE LEE Lecturer of German History, University of BirminghamDONETTE MURRAY part-time Lecturer, University of Ulster

• Foreword by Alistair Horne Harold Macmillan: A Political Life. Introduction; S.Lee & R.Aldous Harold Macmillan: A View from the Foreign Office; O.Wright The Cost of Myth: Macmillan and the Illusion of a 'Special Relationship'; W.S.Lucas Opportunity Knocks: Macmillan at the Treasury, 1955-57; L.Johnman Much Ado about Nothing? Macmillan and Appeasement; N.Crowson Macmillan and Europe; R.Lamb 'Ne Pleurez pas, Milord': Macmillan and France from Algiers to Rambouillet; N.P.Ludlow Pragmatism versus Principle?: Macmillan and Germany; S.Lee Perfect Peace? Macmillan and Ireland; R.Aldous Dear Brendan and Master Harold; C.Lysaght Harold Macmillan, the Second World War and the Empire; S.Ball Macmillan and East of Suez: the Case of Malaysia; J.Subritzky Macmillan and the Soviet Union; C.Keeble Macmillan and Nuclear Weapons: The Skybolt Affair; D.Murray Managing Transition: Macmillan and the Utility of Anglo-American Relations; N.Ashton Index

'Scholars of the Macmillan years will none the less find a great deal to interest them in this book. If the present view of Macmillan remains, as the editors suggest, that he was 'all style and no substance', there is much here that will serve as a corrective.' - D.J. Dutton, Contemporary British Politcs