An untold story of love, idealism and courage in the Second World War’A very moving account of the all-too-brief life of a warrior-poet’ Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad’An elegy for a lost generation, and a fascinating social and political history of a peculiar period in our recent past … it’s impossible to put down Conradi’s impressive and moving account of Thompson’s life without a feeling of regret.’ Mail on Sunday Modest, handsome and a fine poet, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. Brother of E. P. Thompson and lover of Iris Murdoch, Frank was an intellectual idealist, a rare combination of brilliant mind and enormous heart. Of his wartime experiences, Frank wrote prodigiously. His letters, diaries and poetry still read fresh and intimate today – and it is from these that Peter J. Conradi brings vividly to life a brilliantly attractive and courageous personality.Aged just twenty-three, Frank was captured, tortured and executed in Bulgaria. A soldier of principle and integrity, he fought a poet’s war; a very English hero from a very different era.
Peter J. Conradi
Very English Hero [EPUB ebook]
The Making of Frank Thompson
Very English Hero [EPUB ebook]
The Making of Frank Thompson
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 432 ● ISBN 9781408833315 ● Maison d’édition Bloomsbury Publishing ● Publié 2012 ● Téléchargeable 6 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2506354 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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