Whicker's War - Hardcover

Whicker, Alan

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ISBN 10: 0007205074 ISBN 13: 9780007205073

Publisher: Harper Uk, 2006

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As in his Channel 4 series Whicker's War, Alan Whicker now emerges from behind the camera to talk us through the struggle against Adolf Hitler's invincible Wehrmacht in Italy, to give us a first-hand flavour of a savage and forgotten world.
Now at last we go back with him, back to the day when his travels began - when the British Eighth Army invaded Sicily and pursued the German Tenth and Fourteenth Armies up the boot of Italy to the Swiss Alps, and defeat. It's a true adventure story; daily he faced death, once he was a multimillionaire...
He captured the last stronghold of the German SS, served with a vain Allied General so determined to win credit for liberating Rome that his disobedience lengthened the war by a year... and watched the gruesome spectacle of Dictator Benito Mussolini hanging upside down outside a Milan garage next to his loyal mistress.

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About the Author:

Born in Cairo, Egypt, 2 August 1925, Alan Whicker attended Haberdashers' Aske's School, London, before serving as captain in Devonshire Regiment during World War II and then a director with the Army Film and Photo Section with British 8th Army and U.S. 5th Army. His long and extremely distinguished career includes positions as a newspaper war correspondent in Korea, foreign correspondent, novelist, writer, radio broadcaster and host of over 30 episodes of Whicker's World between 1959 and 1993. He has worked for the BBC and ITV, has been broadcast by Channel 4 and has been a producer and host for numerous television specials and documentaries. He is at present the face of the travel company Travelocity.

Review:

'a vivid warm-hearted record of his experiences as a leading member of the Army Film and Photo Unit in Italy during the second world ... Whicker's prose is such a natural expression of his ebullient personality ... that reading it one seems to hear that laconic humour and to realize that he is as dapper and jaunty as he was in 1943.'Sunday Times`Riveting - a marathon television series, now a compulsive and fascinating book...'Radio 4'My bookshelf would certainly be poorer without this written record. Inspired...and inspiring.'Manchester Evening News'It almost doesn't seem like a book at all, for so familiar is the Whicker economy of language and word rhythms that it is impossible to look over the opening paragraphs without hearing the Whicker voice reading the words out loud inside your head.'Jean Moir, Daily Telegraph'One of the outstanding broadcasters of the age and a reporter with notable gifts. Surrounded by carnage, corpses and the memory of lost friends, his familiar voice was as lilting and playful as ever, but laced with elegy...It was beautifully written and delivered with such assurance that even the pauses were eloquent.'Stephen Pile, Daily Telegraph

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