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Disaster aside…

THERE’S A JOKE THAT RUNS “BUT apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?” Lance Macklin’s story is similar: what else do you know about him except his central part in the appalling 1955 Le Mans tragedy?

In this small hardback Jack Barlow shows the rest of the picture, of an attractive, careless figure born of wealthy parents who never truly applied himself to his many projects. While his father started

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