Jo Grimond : towards the sound of gunfire

Foreword by Jim Wallace; This is the first ever biography of a man who saved the Liberal Party when it was at the lowest point in its fortunes. Jo Grimond was highly regarded both as a politician and as a man of personal intergity. he combined his life as leader with that of MP for Britain's most remote constiuency, Orkney and Shetland, where he was a much-loved figure. His story is intimately intertwined with the great Liberal families of the opening of the twentieth century - the Bonham-Carters and the Asquiths - and he knew almost every major figure of his time. For the leader of a small party he operated on a surprisingly wide stage.