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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat

Jan Morris

This concluding volume brings readers up to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. "Morris has written an unorthodox masterpiece...[a] book filled with superb studies of battles, ceremonies, landscapes, confrontations and, above all, characters" (New York Times Book Review). Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Book Details

  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • Publish Date: May 19th, 1980
  • Pages: 576
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.08in - 1.38in - 1.38lb
  • EAN: 9780156302869
  • Categories: Europe - Great Britain - 20th CenturyWorld - GeneralWars & Conflicts - World War I

About the Author

Morris, Jan: - "Jan Morris (1926 - 2020) served as an intelligence officer with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, studied at Oxford University, and was a reporter for the Times and the Guardian before launching into a successful career as a novelist, history author, and travel writer. Her books include Last Letters from Hav, Fifty Years of Europe, Conundrum, Hong Kong, Oxford, The World of Venice, and Farewell the Trumpets."