A Very English Hero The Making of Frank Thompson 1st Edition
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Full Title

A Very English Hero The Making of Frank Thompson 1st Edition
Author(s)

Peter J. Conradi
Edition

1st Edition
ISBN

9781408833315, 9781408830925
Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.

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