Max Beaverbrook

Businessman, patriot, politician and media mogul, Max Aitken, the first Baron Beaverbrook, bestrode British journalism and politics like a colossus. With years of high and low finance, political dogfights, wars, conspiracy, media wrangles, sex and grand living, all of it threading through the dramatic years of the first half of the twentieth century, his story is one of continuing fascination.