Churchill's Bodyguard - Hardcover

Hickman, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0755314484 ISBN 13: 9780755314485

Verlag: Headline, 2005

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Críticas:

'a gripping saga... that engrossed me utterly from start to finish' Alexander Waugh on The Call-Up (Telegraph)

'The great merit of Tom Hickman's definitive study of national service is that it presents an entirely fair balance sheet.' Anthony Howard on The Call-Up (Sunday Telegraph)

'... Tom Hickman's comprehensive history ... is much more than a romp down memory lane.' Sunday Express (Sunday Express)

'Hickman has drawn on the memories of 90 fellow conscripts to produce an often moving but also amusing chronicle of the national service years.' Sunday Times (Sunday Times)

'... a fair-minded and perceptive book; it's hard to imagine there'll be a better summary of the subject.' Daily Telegraph (Daily Telegraph)

'a hugely enjoyable anecdotal history' Gary Sheffield, TLS (Times Literary Supplement)

Reseña del editor:

Walter H. Thompson was Churchill's bodyguard from 1921 until 1936 and was brought back from retirement at the outbreak of war.

Tom Hickman's authorised biography draws heavily on extracts from Thompson's own manuscript in which Thompson gives a unique insider's account of a number of occasions on which Churchill's life was put seriously at risk by terrorists, Hitler or his own recklessness.

After the war, Thompson married one of Churchill's secretaries, and her recollections, as well as those of surviving family members, are interwoven to tell the revelatory inside story of life beside the Greatest Briton.

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• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0755314484
• ISBN 13: 9780755314485
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320