Friedrich Engels was prosperous, spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, and enjoyed the comfortable, middle class life of a Victorian gentleman. He was also the co-founder of international communism - the philosophy which in the 20th century came to control one third of the human race - co-author of The Communist Manifesto, a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so that Karl Marx could write Das Kapital. One of Britain’s most brilliant young historians and commentators, Tristram Hunt, tells the story of devoted friendship, class compromise, ideological struggle, and family betrayal set against the backdrop of revolutionary Europe and industrialising England; of Manchester mills, Paris barricades, and East End strikes.
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