Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy?: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer: An Episode of the Great War - Softcover

Lentin, Antony

 
9781908323118: Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy?: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer: An Episode of the Great War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908323116 ISBN 13: 9781908323118
Verlag: Haus Publishing Ltd., 2013

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In the early summer of 1914 Sir Edgar Speyer and his wife Leonora stood at the center of London society, an era made famous by the television series Downton Abbey. He was the "King of the Underground" and a patron of the arts, she a famous violinist and poetess. Yet within weeks of the outbreak of war, they became pariahs, objects of suspicion and aversion. The "anti-alien" campaign following the sinking of the Lusitania forced the Speyers into exile in the United States. He was stripped of his membership of the Privy Council, but she went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.


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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Professor Antony Lentin , formerly a Professor of History at the Open University, is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Barrister. He is author of Guilt at Versailles: Lloyd George and the Pre-History of Appeasement (1985), Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: from Versailles to Hitler 1919-1940 (2001), and The Last Political Lord: Lord Sumner (1859-1934) (2009).


Antony Lentin is a Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Barrister and formerly a Professor of History at the Open University, he is the author of Lloyd George and the Lost Peace (2001), The Last Political Law Lord: Lord Sumner (1859-1934) (2009) and General Smuts (2010). He has published widely on 18th-century Russia and edited The Odes of Horace for Wordsworth Classics (1997).

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Verlag
Haus Publishing Ltd.
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908323116
ISBN 13 
9781908323118
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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