Saville

JOHN SAVILLE:
Memoirs From The Left

John Saville, Professor Emeritus, has been one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century in the field of British Labour History. These are his political Memoirs.

Contents:
Early life; joining the Communist Party at the LSE, travels in France and Nazi Germany
Stories of war service as an Anti-Aircraft Gunnery Sergeant-Major
WW2 army life in India- colonialism and the Communist Party
Teaching at the Department of Economic History at the University of Hull
Deeply involved in the crisis of the British Communist Party in 1956, following the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
Acquaintances and co- thinkers: the MI5 agent planted at his home in Hull, John Griffith, Stuart Hall, Philip Larkin, Doris Lessing, Ralph Miliband, Sir John Pratt, Raphael Samuel, EP Thompson,
Working against America's Cold War politics
Editing the Dictionary of Labour Biography and the Socialist Register
Life in Hull, perspectives on a the rightward drift of Labour.

John Saville was Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Hull.
He has written or edited over twenty books including 1848,
The Consolidation of the Capitalist State, and the Dictionary of Labour Biography.