Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the UK from 1957-1963
Posted: April 30, 2013 Filed under: politics Leave a comment
Macmillan served with distinction as a captain in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War, and was wounded on three occasions. During the Battle of the Somme, he spent an entire day wounded and lying in a slit trench with a bullet in his pelvis, reading the classical playwright Aeschylus in the original Greek.
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