A.L. Rowse once again provides some fascinating insights into the lives, characters and intellects of fourteen of his well-known contemporaries all of whom he knew personally. Includes glimpses of Bertrand Russell, J.M. Keynes, Ernest Beving, C.R. Attlee, Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Rebecca West, H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Bowen, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis and John Betjeman.