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John Pollock
1878–1963
An English historian, journalist, and translator, he wrote lively works on politics, war, and the past, bringing both scholarship and first-hand experience to his books. His writing ranges from the intrigues of Charles II's reign to eyewitness accounts of revolutionary Russia.
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About the author
Born in 1878, Sir Frederick John Pollock, 4th Baronet, was an English historian, journalist, and translator. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and built a career that moved easily between literary work, reporting, and historical writing.
His books show an unusually wide range of interests. He wrote The Popish Plot, a study of one of the most notorious conspiracies of Stuart England, and also published The Bolshevik Adventure, drawing on time he spent in Poland and Russia during and after the First World War. That mix of careful historical curiosity and direct experience gives his work much of its energy.
Pollock also translated plays and remained active in public and literary life for decades. He died in 1963, leaving behind work that can appeal both to readers who enjoy narrative history and to those interested in the political dramas of Europe in the early twentieth century.