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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 208. Chapters: Fred Trueman, Brian Epstein, Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, Georg Solti, Roman Abramovich, Eric Hobsbawm, Walter Goodman, Geoffrey Pyke, Max Born, Edgar Speyer, Jason Isaacs, Tony Judt, Alan Sugar, Sidney Reilly, Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Anish Kapoor, Malcolm Rifkind, Lucian Freud, Heston Blumenthal, Shirley Porter, Shabtai Rosenne, Gerald Kaufman, Jonathan Miller, Barney Ruditsky, Judah P. Benjamin, Robert Maxwell, Jacob Epstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Leo Amery, Vidal Sassoon, Ernest Gellner, Joseph Rotblat, Michael Polanyi, Arlene Phillips, Nikolaus Pevsner, Basil Bernstein, Walter Heitler, Brian David Josephson, Shlomo Moussaieff (businessman), Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, George Lane (British Army officer), Margaret Gilbert, Ingrid Pitt, Ernst Gombrich, Robert Kronfeld, Chris Blackwell, Isaac Deutscher, Aurel Stein, Richard Gombrich, Samuel Alexander, Robert Stanford Tuck, Martin Gilbert, Sydney Brenner, Norbert Elias, Matthew Gould, Emeric Pressburger, R. B. Kitaj, Erich Mendelsohn, Johnny Clegg, Ikey Solomon, Robert Peston, Abba Eban, Melanie Phillips, Ronald Cohen. Excerpt: Sir Frederick Sewards ("Fred") Trueman OBE (6 February 1931 - 1 July 2006) was an English cricketer, author, and broadcaster. He was generally acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers in history. A bowler of genuinely fast pace who was widely known as "Fiery Fred," Trueman played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1949 until he retired in 1968. He represented England in 67 Test matches and was the first bowler to take 300 wickets in a Test career. He and Brian Statham opened the England bowling together for many years and formed one of the most famous bowling partnerships in Test cricket history. Trueman's talent, skill and popularity were such that British Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
