War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, broke out when people were least prepared for it. A theatrical diva prepares to shock her audience, while an English poet in the making sets out on a
War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. This title tells the story of England in 1914.
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed,
Mark Bostridge's Florence Nightingale is a masterful and effortlessly enjoyable biography of one of Britain's most iconic heroines. Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence N
As the much anticipated film adaptation of Vera Brittain’s First World War testimony Testament of Youth arrives in cinemas in 2014/15 this new book from Mark Bostridge (her biographer) tells the story
Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain’s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning he
