Winston Churchill was a published writer before he was elected to the House of Commons and for some 60 years, in and out of office, authorship was his second career. At times, indeed, when his political fortunes were low, it was his only career and vital to his livelihood. This book describes Churchill's life and work as a writer, evaluating his ...
This book relates the story of the friendship that grew up between two of the great leaders of World War II. The result of extensive research carried out by the author on Churchill and Roosevelt, the book presents Churchill from the perspective of the Roosevelt circle which reveals new insights into this complex man. The men are presented not in ...
The first complete biography of Yeats since the 1950s, this volume emphasizes the ambitious, shrewd manipulator behind the dreamer and mystic. It also includes new material regarding Yeats's part in the movement to revive Irish literature and his role in the revolutionary activities of the Fenians.
David Jones was born in Brockley South London in 1895. His father, a printer, was a Welshman from Flint in North Wales. In David Jones's life and art his Welsh heritage was of central importance. In 1915 he enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and spent the next three years fighting in the trenches on the Western Front. They were prehaps the most ...
A conscientious objector during World War 1, Basil Bunting worked for British Intelligence during World War 2 but his real forte was writing poetry. In 1994 Oxford University Press published his Collected Poems and more will follow.'
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