
- 328 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The King's War
About this book
The broadcast that George VI made to the British nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939āwhich formed the climax of the multi-Oscar-winning film The King's Speechāwas 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 that relationship through the dangerous days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-Day to eventual victory in 1945āand beyond. Like the first book, it is written by Peter Conradi, a London Sunday Times journalist, and Mark Logue (Lionel's grandson), and again draws on exclusive material from the Logue Archiveāthe collection of diaries, letters, and other documents left by Lionel and his feisty wife, Myrtle. This gripping narrative provides a fascinating portrait of two men and their respective familiesāthe Windsors and the Loguesāas they together face the greatest challenge in Britain's history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword
- Prologue: The Kingās Funeral
- Chapter One: The First Wartime Speech
- Chapter Two: Sitzkrieg
- Chapter Three: The Big Freeze
- Chapter Four: The 'stab in the back'
- Chapter Five: Dunkirk
- Chapter Six: The Blitz
- Chapter Seven: No Longer Alone
- Chapter Eight: Letter to Rupert
- Chapter Nine: Cutting the Gordian Knot
- Chapter Ten: The March on Rome
- Chapter Eleven: D-Day
- Chapter Twelve: Victory
- Chapter Thirteen: Voices from the Other Side
- Chapter Fourteen: The Last Words
- Epilogue
- Illustrations Insert
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Copyright