The king's war

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 – which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech – was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch’s side.The King’s War follows this relationship through the dark days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-Day to eventual victory in 1945 – and beyond. It is written by Peter Conradi, a Sunday Times journalist, and Mark Logue, Lionel’s grandson, whose previous book, The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy, was a best-seller in Britain and America and translated into more than 20 languages.The King’s War is a fascinating portrait of two men and their respective families – the Windsors and the Logues – as they together faced up to the greatest challenge in Britain’s history.

Participantes

Autor: Peter Conradi | Mark Logue

Autor

PETER CONRADI

Peter Conradi é um jornalista britânico, graduado da Universidade de Oxford. Já foi correspondente internacional, e tornou-se editor do The Sunday Times, de Londres. É autor, entre outros, de The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer e O Pianista de Hitler. Com Mark Logue, escreveu o best-seller O Discurso do Rei: Como um Homem Salvou a Monarquia Britânica, que conta a história da amizade entre o rei George VI e seu terapeuta da fala Lionel Logue, e que inspirou o aclamado filme de mesmo nome.