Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374185220 ISBN 13: 9780374185220

Verlag: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX, 2012

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William Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success.One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as "wonderful . . . brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness."

Now, in Counting One's Blessings, Shawcross has put together a selection of her letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle. Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent, from her early childhood before World War I to the very end of her long life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the real person behind the public face.

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William Shawcross became a writer after leaving University College Oxford in 1968. He was in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet occupation; this inspired his first book, a biography of Alexander Dubcek, the Czechoslovak leader, which was published in 1970. Since then he has written and travelled widely. In 1995 he wrote the BBC Television series Monarchy. In 2002 his BBC Television series and book, Queen and Country, celebrated the Queen's Golden Jubilee and examined the changing face of Britain during her reign. He is also the author of Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11 and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (2012). He lives in England.

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• Verlag: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0374185220
• ISBN 13: 9780374185220
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 666
• Herausgeber: Shawcross William
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