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- Book Synopsis
- Historian and author Daniel Snowman (b. 1938) writes of a Jewish child's memories of the War, gives colourful inside accounts of life in Cambridge, JFK's America (including Civil Rights) and the new University of Sussex, of the BBC in its heyday, choral concerts under the world's top conductors and extended visits to the Arctic and Antarctic. Daniel watches Churchill making one of his final speeches, interviews Harry Truman about Hiroshima, spends a week in Bayreuth with Wagner's daughter-in-law, meets Pope John-Paul II, Isaiah Berlin and Lord Snowdon, while getting to know Plácido Domingo and the most famous among the 'Hitler Emigrés'.
- About The Author
- Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. Author of over a dozen books, Daniel was born in London, educated at Cambridge and Cornell, was a lecturer at the University of Sussex and went to work at BBC Radio where he produced a wide variety of projects on cultural and historical topics. Since 2004, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research(U of London),Daniel's books include a study of the impact on Britain of The Hitler Emigrés and The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781839522864
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Brown Dog Books, (03 August 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 383
- Weight
- 648 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 18 mm
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