Staring at God

Informationen zum Autor Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books include: Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle , Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell , Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII , Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England , Vaughan Williams , Strictly English , A Short History of Power , Simply English and High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain . In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has held senior editorial positions on The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and is now a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. Klappentext Simon Heffer's history of modern Britain goes on, creating vivid portraits of the main protagonists such as Lord Kitchener, Winston Churchill, Lady Otteline Morrell and Lord Northcliffe. Zusammenfassung Masterly.' CHARLES VYVYAN, STANDPOINT'Fascinating stuff.' SPECTATOR'Possibly the finest, most comprehensive analysis of the home front in the Great War ever produced.' LITERARY REVIEW'Every bit as good as its two predecessors.

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Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books include: Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell, Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII, Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England, Vaughan Williams, Strictly English, A Short History of Power, Simply English and High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain. In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has held senior editorial positions on The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and is now a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

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Simon Heffer's history of modern Britain goes on, creating vivid portraits of the main protagonists such as Lord Kitchener, Winston Churchill, Lady Otteline Morrell and Lord Northcliffe.

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Masterly.' CHARLES VYVYAN, STANDPOINT'Fascinating stuff.' SPECTATOR'Possibly the finest, most comprehensive analysis of the home front in the Great War ever produced.' LITERARY REVIEW'Every bit as good as its two predecessors.