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The West End Front

The West End Front

The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

by Matthew Sweet
Paperback
Age range: 0 to 0 years old Publication Date: 07/06/2012

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Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas.

Royals: Meet Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, born in a suite at Claridge's that was declared Yugoslav territory for the night.

Players: Meet Joyce Stone, whose husband leads the band at the Dorchester, keeping dancers foxtrotting even as the shudders of bombardments penetrate the sound-proofed walls of the hotel.

West End Front is a witty and eye-opening account of the extraordinary events that unfolded under the reinforced ceilings of London's grand hotels.
ISBN:
9780571234783
9780571234783
Category:
Second World War
Age range:
0 to 0 years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-06-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
196x127x26mm
Weight:
0.31kg
Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet is a writer and broadcaster with a doctorate in Wilkie Collins. He presents Night Waves and Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 and The Philosopher's Arms and The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4.

He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema - which he adapted as a film for BBC Four.

He has also edited and introduced the work of Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

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