David Gilmour

Curzon

Imperial Statesman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A biography of the controversial British statesman, reissued here. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780141990866
• ISBN-10: 0141990864
• Artikelnr.: 57383041

Autorenporträt

David Gilmour is one of Britain's most admired and accomplished historical writers and biographers. He is the author of lives of George Curzon (Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (Elizabeth Longford Prize) and of The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj, an acclaimed study of the administrators of Victorian India. His other works include The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples, The Last Leopard, a biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (Marsh Biography Award) as well as several books on the modern history of Spain and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Research Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.