Publisher's Synopsis
Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb (1911-2001) was a great British historian. He led an extraordinary life of startling contrasts, much of it cloaked in secrecy. This is a very personal account written by Neil McKendrick, a fellow historian, a fellow Master of a Cambridge college and one of his oldest and closest friends, who knew Plumb from his early days to his dying hours some fifty years after they first met.