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Peter Conradi

    Deze auteur richt zich op een diepgaande verkenning van de menselijke natuur en complexe maatschappelijke kwesties via hun tot nadenken stemmende werken. Hun schrijven kenmerkt zich door scherpe intellect en indringende analyse, waardoor lezers worden aangemoedigd na te denken over de wereld om hen heen. Door middel van hun literaire inspanningen bieden ze een uniek perspectief op machtsdynamiek en internationale betrekkingen, waarmee ze erkenning verwerven als een belangrijk commentator van de actualiteit. Hun werken worden gewaardeerd om hun diepgang, helderheid en vermogen om belangrijke discussies aan te wakkeren.

    Peter Conradi
    The Great Survivors
    The Saint and the Artist
    Who Lost Russia?
    The Everyman History of English Literature
    The king's speech
    The King's Speech
    • The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch's side. The King's War follows this relationship through the dark days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-Day to eventual victory in 1945 - and beyond. The King's War is a fascinating portrait of two men and their respective families - the Windsors and the Logues - as they together faced up to the greatest challenge in Britain's history

      An Autumn Hunting2019
      3,8
    • Who Lost Russia?

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      The Cold War ended twenty-five years ago, but tensions between Russia and the West are as bad as ever. What happened? Essential background reading to understanding the bizarre and shifting relationship between Trumps America and Putins Russia. Exclusive interviews with key figures both in Russia and the West, including Putins former Chief of Staff

      Who Lost Russia?2018
      4,2
    • The Great Survivors

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi - the celebrated author of The King's Speech - offers an uncompromising portrayal of Europe's royals and reveals the scandals, excesses, conflicts and interests hidden behind the pomp of the ceremonial garb and the grandeur of official functions.

      The Great Survivors2013
      3,6
    • Between June 9th and 12th 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the guests of Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his country estate in Hyde Park, New York, during what was the first ever visit by a reigning British monarch to the United States. Coming at a time when Britain desperately needed U.S. help in the conflict that now seemed inevitable, the meeting was front page news on both sides of the Atlantic and imbued with huge political significance. This fascinating book recreates the backdrop to the royal visit, analyzing the political background and the media's reaction, and tells the back stories both of the King and of Roosevelt, whose colorful personal life became entwined with the visit

      Hotdogs and cocktails: when FDR met King George VI at Hyde Park on Hudson2013
      3,6
    • The king's speech

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      The King's Speech is het nooit eerder vertelde verhaal van de opmerkelijke vriendschap tussen spraaklereraar Lionel Logue en de onder zijn spraakgebrek gebukt gaande toekomstige koning George VI van Groot-Brittannië. Het werpt een bijzonder licht op de intieme band tussen beide mannen en op de rol die de vrouw van de koning, wijlen koningin Elizabeth, speelde door hen bij elkaar te brengen om de reputatie en het koningschap van haar man te redden. Het boek biedt een verbluffende inkijk in een doorgaans hermetisch afgesloten wereld. Nooit eerder verscheen er zo'n persoonlijk portret van de Britse monarchie, in een tijd van haar diepste crisis. * Vertelt het ware verhaal achter de succesvolle gelijknamige film, onderscheiden met 4 oscars * De perfecte aanvulling op de film De film stopt in 1939. Het boek gaat veel verder, tot de dood van zowel Koning George als van Lionel Logue

      The king's speech2010
    • The King's Speech

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      One man saved the British Royal Family in the early 20th century, not a prime minister or archbishop, but an almost unknown, self-taught speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King' by a 1930s newspaper, Logue was an Australian commoner who transformed the nervous Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after Edward VIII abdicated in 1936. This untold story explores the remarkable relationship between Logue and the future King George VI, drawing from Logue's diaries and archives, with contributions from his grandson. It highlights the intimacy of their bond and the crucial role played by the King's wife, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in uniting them to salvage her husband's reputation and reign. This narrative offers an extraordinary insight into a private world, revealing the torment George VI faced due to his stammer, exacerbated by his father George V. For the first time, readers gain a personal portrait of the British monarchy during its greatest crisis, seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve and save his King.

      The King's Speech2010
      3,7
    • Ein Mann in Adolf Hitlers Umfeld spielte während dessen Aufstieg zur Macht eine besondere Rolle: Ernst 'Putzi' Hanfstaengl. Er lebte lange in New York, war Lebensgefährte von Djuna Barnes und ein Studienfreund von Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1921 kehrte er nach Deutschland zurück. Beeindruckt von Hitlers Auftreten wurde er Parteimitglied und stieg zum Auslandspressechef auf. Er wurde ein enger Vertrauter Hitlers, der ihn zu jeder Tages- und Nachtzeit zum Klavierspielen zitierte. 1937 wurde offensichtlich, dass sein Einfluss auf Hitler geschwunden war und die Parteispitze ihn kaltstellte. Er fürchtete um sein Leben und floh über die Schweiz nach England. Dort wurde er zu Kriegsbeginn interniert und später nach Kanada deportiert. Hanfstaengl nahm Kontakt zu Roosevelts Umfeld auf, der ab 1942 dessen Insider-Kenntnisse für die psychologische Kriegsführung gegen Nazi-Deutschland nutzte. Nach Kriegsende wandelte er sich vom Saulus zum Paulus und erklärte, dass es für ihn heute unvorstellbar ist, wie er Hitler je verfallen konnte. Peter Conradi widerlegt diese Aussage, indem er die Mechanismen von Ehrgeiz, Macht und Machterhalt analysiert. Darüber hinaus bietet dieses Buch einen lebendigen und sachkundigen Einblick in die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, die den Aufstieg der Nationalsozialisten erst möglich gemacht haben.

      Hitlers Klavierspieler2007
      3,5
    • Neuvěřitelný příběh jediné osoby, která přímo pracovala pro Hitlera a Franklina D. Roosevelta - příjemného absolventa Harvardu Ernsta Hanfstaengla, který pomáhal vytvořit stvůru nacismu a později pracoval na jejím zničení. Byl to muž, který se těšil důvěře "vůdce" i F. D. Roosevelta, muž s jedinečným celosvětovým rozhledem po katastrofických událostech počátku dvacátého století. Ernst Hanfstaengl (známý jako Putzi) byl domýšlivý Hitlerův dvorní šašek, pianista, který ho dovedl uklidňovat, a mazaný šéf Hitlerova odboru pro zahraniční tisk v období jeho vzestupu; později hrál roli v Rooseveltově nanejvýš tajném projektu, zaměřeném na propagandu proti Třetí říši. Kniha Hitlerův pianista, která odhaluje mnoho skutečností z Hitlerova osobního života a popisuje americkou psychologickou válku, vypráví příběh muže, rozpolceného svou loajalitou vůči dvěma nesmiřitelným odpůrcům.

      Hitlerův pianista. Vzestup a pád Ernsta Hanfstaengla. Hitlerova důvěrníka a Rooseveltova spojence2006
      4,0
    • Going Buddhist

      Panic and Emptiness, The Buddha and Me

      • 183bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      It often takes a crisis to see what a life's shape has been, to show what really matters. For Peter Conradi, writer, academic, acclaimed biographer of Iris Murdoch, the moment came in 1982. self-help book for cynics, in which it becomes clear that going Buddhist is neither a quick fix, nor a one-shot deal. Conradi explains the point of a religion relevant to Westerners, perishing from the knowingness and nihilism of the age.

      Going Buddhist2004
      2,7
    • Iris Murduch (1919 - 1999) - unbestrittene Doyenne der britischen Gegenwartsliteratur - prägte als Romanautorin ebenso wie auch durch ihre beeindruckende Persönlichkeit eine ganze Epoche.§Der Autor kannte Iris Murduch nicht nur persönlich, er hatte auch Zugang zu ihren Briefen und Aufzeichnungen und gibt in dieser Biografie Einblick in das sehr facettenreiche Leben einer großen Schriftstellerin.

      Iris Murdoch2004
    • The Saint and the Artist

      A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch

      • 422bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      Iris Murdoch, who died in 1999, was the author of 26 novels, including The Bell, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, The Black Prince, and the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, The Sea. In The Saint and the Artist, now fully revised and updated, distinguished literary critic Peter J. Conradi offers a lively and valuable critical appreciation of her works of fiction. He traces the way in which the zest and buoyant high spirits of her early novels gave way to a more deeply and darkly comic achievement in the novels of the 1970s. Conradi, who knew Murdoch well, suggests how her own life, wonderfully transmuted into high art, provided the raw material for her novels; he also argues that they should be read as serious entertainments and as important fictions in the Anglo-Russian tradition, and not as disguised philosophy. Peter J. Conradi is the author of the highly acclaimed biography Iris Murdoch: A Life.

      The Saint and the Artist2001
      3,9