John Julius Norwich

France

A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A witty history of 2000 years of French history and the last book from legendary popular historian John Julius Norwich

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / John Murray
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 597117
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781473663848
• ISBN-10: 1473663849
• Artikelnr.: 54089329

Autorenporträt

After National Service, John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) took a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. His publications include The Normans in Sicily; Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell); Sahara; The Architecture of Southern England; Glyndebourne; and A History of Venice. He was also the author of a three-volume history of the Byzantine Empire. He wrote and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television, and was a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects. Lord Norwich was chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, and a Commendatore of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He was made a CVO in 1993.

Rezensionen

Always a warm, welcoming guide, John Julius Norwich takes us on a historical tour of France from its earliest days to the twenty-first century . . . A highly entertaining introduction to a fascinating nation History Revealed Magazine 20180501