Matthew Sweet

The West End Front

The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Winston Churchill's private bottle of whisky; the East End Communist who marched with his comrades into the air-raid shelter of the Savoy; the throneless prince born in a suite at Claridge's declared...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 128mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780571234783
• ISBN-10: 057123478X
• Artikelnr.: 34469730

Autorenporträt

Matthew Sweet presents Night Waves and Freethinking on BBC Radio 3, and is the summer presenter of The Film Programme on Radio Four. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon, which he adapted as a film for BBC Four. His TV programmes include Silent Britain, A Brief History of Fun, The Age of Excess, Truly, Madly, Cheaply and The Rules of Film Noir. .