The King's speech : how one man saved the British monarchy by Logue, Mark, Conradi, Peter instant download

The King's speech : how one man saved the British monarchy by Logue, Mark, Conradi, Peter instant download

xiv, 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm, One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century. Amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. This is the previously untold story of the extraordinary relationship between Logue and the haunted young man who became King George VI, drawn from Logue's unpublished personal diaries, Includes bibliographical references and index, God Save the King -- The 'common colonial' -- Passage to England -- Growing Pains -- Diagnosis -- Court Dress with Feathers -- The Calm Before the Storm -- Edward VIII's 327 Days -- In the Shadow of the Coronation -- After the Coronation -- The Path to War -- 'Kill the Austrian House Painter' -- Dunkirk and the Dark Days -- The Tide Turns -- Victory -- The Last Words