The West End Front - The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Sweet presents Night Waves and Freethinking on BBC Radio 3, and is the summer presenter of The Film Programme on Radio Four. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon , which he adapted as a film for BBC Four. His TV programmes include Silent Britain , A Brief History of Fun , The Age of Excess , Truly, Madly, Cheaply and The Rules of Film Noir . . Klappentext Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Winston Churchill's private bottle of whisky; the East End Communist who marched with his comrades into the air-raid shelter of the Savoy; the throneless prince born in a suite at Claridge's declared... In The West End Front, Matthew Sweet draws a sumptuous, witty and eye-opening history of the Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - and the eccentrics, stars, aristocrats and criminals living in London's grand hotels during the Blitz. Zusammenfassung Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Winston Churchill's private bottle of whisky; the East End Communist who marched with his comrades into the air-raid shelter of the Savoy; the throneless prince born in a suite at Claridge's declared...

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Sweet, Sweet Matthew
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780571234783
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23478-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; European History, True stories, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Military / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Inventions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, True stories: general, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater