This concluding volume brings readers up to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. Morris has written an unorthodox masterpiece...[a] book filled with superb studies of battles, ceremonies, landscapes, confrontations and, above all, characters (New York Times Book Review). Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Jan Morris (1926 - 2020) served as an intelligence officer with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, studied at Oxford University, and was a reporter for the
Times and the
Guardian before launching into a successful career as a novelist, history author, and travel writer. Her books include
Last Letters from Hav,
Fifty Years of Europe, Conundrum, Hong Kong, Oxford, The World of Venice, and
Farewell the Trumpets.