"His [Winston Churchill's] violent disagreement with Neville Chamberlain did not spring solely from thwarted ambition …"

"For many years, as a gloomy exercise, I used to look for British cars on the streets of New York and the best that I …"

"Some years ago, Sir John Plumb, aware of the threat both to the general mind and to the survival of his profession th…"

"He has always written to be read. He is always as concerned with the quality of his prose as he is with the quality o…"

"I once wrote that I knew no one else who could at the same time master the technical problems of conveying the sweep …"

"If boldly conceived, thoughtfully researched and elegantly written popular history is once again enjoying an extraord…"

"In 1950 Plumb was confident enough to write for "The Pelican History of England" his justly famous masterpiece of com…"

"Creative energy is one of Professor Plumb's most obvious gifts – another is his sense of reality. No other historian …"

"Professor Plumb is outstanding among contemporary historians in fighting this diminished scope of his chosen discipli…"

"In Robert Walpole's life he has found the exemplar of that need for political stability without which social stabilit…"