The King's war

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The work The King's war represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The King's war

Statement of responsibility

Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

Title variation

King's war

Title variation remainder

a commoner, the crown and Britain's greatest struggle

Creator

• trueLogue, Mark

Contributor

• trueConradi, Peter, (Journalist)

Author

• trueLogue, Mark

Subject

• Logue, Lionel, 1880-1953 -- Friends and associates
• Speech therapy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• George, VI, King of Great Britain, 1895-1952 -- Friends and associates
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain
• Windsor, House of -- History -- 20th century
• trueGreat Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952

Language

eng

Summary

The extraordinary follow-up to the international bestseller The King's Speech. 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 book draws on exclusive material from the Logue Archive - the collection of diaries, letters and other documents left by Lionel and his feisty wife, Myrtle. It provides 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

Cataloging source

APLS

Dewey number

941.0840922

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult