Books written by Jonathan Schneer

George Lansbury

George Lansbury
Ben Tillett: Portrait of a Labour Leader

For more on life in East London, see William J. Fishman, East London Jewish Radicals, 1870–1914 (Duckworth, London, 1974); Jack London, People of the Abyss (Macmillan, London, ...
London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis

M. Macartney, Mervyn, 18, 24, 25 Maccatta, Ernest C., 88 MacDonald, Robert, 12 Maclver and Company, 82 MacKenzie, John, ... 84 Manchester Guardian, 136 Mann, Charles, 54 Mann, John, 46 Mann, Tom, 51, 260, 299n2 1 Mansion House, 64-65, ...
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia

20 Sadly, however, Garstin leaves the slimmest record of them all (only his books and a few letters). There is a painting of him aged 16 at Blundell's boarding school, but I could find no suitable photograph.
Labour's Conscience: The Labour Left, 1945-51

In retrospect it is obvious that Moscow could neither participate in the Marshall Plan nor allow the Eastern European countries under its domination to participate, without ceding the political initiative to America.
Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet

Clem Davies, the independent backbencher who played so large a role in the downfall of the appeasers only twenty months ... a Cabinet minister that “the House was beginning to be critical about some of the P.M.'s actions and decisions.
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

But while in Switzerland Smuts and a second Briton, Phillip Kerr, private secretary to Lloyd George and a future British ambassador to Washington, spoke with Turks too. Again we cannot be precise about what was said or even to whom, ...
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia

All this drew the attention of Scotland Yard's Special Branch , which already in March 1914 had opened a file on him.12 In 1910 , also before he married , Peters may have participated in an infamous robbery of a jewelry store in East ...
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia

The Lockhart Plot was a turning point in world history, except it failed to turn.
The Thames

England's great river through the ages.
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Jonathan Schneer explores the story behind the declaration and its unforeseen consequences that have shaped the modern world, placing it in context paying attention to the fascinating characters who conceived, opposed and plotted around it ...
Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet

After the defeat of France in May 1940, only one nation stood between Nazi Germany and total domination of Europe – Britain. This is the gripping story of Winston Churchill’s...
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century.
Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet

As prize-winning historian Jonathan Schneer reveals in Ministers at War, Churchill depended on a team of powerful ministers to manage the war effort as he rallied a beleaguered nation.