Allen Lane The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

The book is very well researched and gives one a true account of what it is that makes some people see opportunities and strive to make things happen!

Sassoon has written a wonderful book about a fascinating family and period. His knowledge and handling of the primary sources is brilliantly done and the narrative never slows. One error though on page 17 he says that "India had been accustomed to using gold for its currency" This is incorrect , silver was the basis of its currency as England found to its cost when it was drained of that metal in the C17th, causing a financial crisis that almost destroyed William's reign.

A excellent account of this family dynasty from its earliest beginnings to modern times.