Harry Leslie Smith

Harry's Last Stand

How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

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Produktbeschreibung

The paperback edition of one of this year's most exciting and influential political books

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 183g
• ISBN-13: 9781848317369
• ISBN-10: 1848317360
• Artikelnr.: 40693582

Autorenporträt

Harry Leslie Smith is a survivor of the Great Depression, a second world war RAF veteran and, at 91, an activist for the poor and for the preservation of social democracy. His Guardian articles have been shared over 80,000 times on Facebook and have attracted huge comment and debate. He has authored numerous books about Britain during the Great Depression, the second world war and postwar austerity. He lives outside Toronto, Canada and in Yorkshire.

91-year old Harry Leslie Smith become an online sensation in November 2013 when a Guardian article of his was shared almost 80,000 times on Facebook

A writer of beautifully sculpted, insistent prose with a wide appeal - set to become the male Diana Athill...

Rezensionen

'A kind of epic poem, one that moves in circular fashion from passionate denunciation to intense autobiographical reflection ... should be required reading for every MP, peer, councillor, civil servant and commentator. The fury and sense of powerlessness that so many people feel at government policy beam out of every page.' Melissa Benn, Guardian