Mark Logue

The King's Speech

How one man saved the British monarchy

Buch

Lionel Logue was a self-taught and virtually unknown Australian speech therapist. Yet it was this outgoing, amiable man who almost single-handedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 over his love for Mrs Simpson. The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy is the previously untold story of the remarkable relationship between Logue and the haunted future King George VI, written with Logue's grandson and drawing exclusively from his grandfather Lionel's diaries and archive. This is an astonishing insight into the House of Windsor at th… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Conradi, Peter

ISBN: 978-0-85738-111-8
EAN: 9780857381118
Produktnummer: 10417615
Verlag: Quercus
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.7 cm 200 g
Gewicht: 200

Über den Autor

Mark Logue is the grandson of Lionel Logue. He is a film maker and the custodian of the Logue Archive. He lives in London. Peter Conradi is an author and journalist. He works for the Sunday Times and his last book was Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl.