Ribbentrop(Updated) 通过 MichaelBloch Paperback, 576 页, 发布时间 2003 通过 Little, Brown Book Group Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-349-11515-3, ISBN: 0-349-11515-X
"Hailed in turns as 'excellent', 'intelligent', 'scrupulously fair', 'remarkable', 'impressive', and 'definitive', this superb book, by one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation, focuses on the life of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister from 1938 until the end of the Third Reich. At the heart of German power during the war, this strange, sinister and intriguing character was violently anti-British, and encouraged Hi ..."
Closet Queens(Reprint) Some 20th Century British Politicians 通过 MichaelBloch Paperback, 336 页, 发布时间 2017 通过 Abacus ISBN-13: 978-0-349-13875-6, ISBN: 0-349-13875-3
"Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era. As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and exposure meant ruin and disgrace, such men were obliged either to repress their sexual feelings or else lead double lives, indulging their tastes secretly while respectably married wi ..."
"James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) was a noted expert on the English country house and perhaps the greatest British diarist of the 20th century. Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching, and sharply observed, his journals reveal a fascinating personality and hold up a mirror to historical events large and small. Despite advancing years, James Lees-Milne's descriptions of the people he meets, the houses he visits, and country life on the Duke of Be ..."
James Lees-Milne(2nd Edition) The Life 通过 MichaelBloch Hardcover, 416 页, 发布时间 2009 通过 John Murray ISBN-13: 978-0-7195-6034-7, ISBN: 0-7195-6034-9
"James Lees-Milne (1908--97) -- known to friends as Jim -- is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as 'the twentieth-century Pepys'. In this long-awaited biography, Michael Bloch portrays a life rich in contradictions, in which an unassuming youth overtook more dazzling contemporaries to em ..."
F.M. The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander: Founder of the Alexander Technique 通过 MichaelBloch, Hachette Uk, Hachette Staff Paperback, 272 页, 发布时间 2004 通过 Little, Brown Book Group ISBN-13: 978-0-316-86048-2, ISBN: 0-316-86048-4
"The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re- education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder, Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), was an Australian actor who stumbled upon it in the 1890s after studying himself in mirrors to discover why he had lost his voice. He realised that most people suffered from the same postural ..."
"In this brilliant and authoritative work, based on their private correspondence and papers, Michael Bloch describes the feud which developed between the Duke of Windsor and the British royal establishment after the Abdication, the humiliations which were suffered by the ex-King and his wife, and the plots to ensure that they remained in exile."
Operation Willi Plot to Capture the Duke of Windsor, July 1940 通过 MichaelBloch Paperback, 264 页, 发布时间 1986 通过 Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN-13: 978-0-297-78757-0, ISBN: 0-297-78757-8
"Of all the bizarre individuals projected into high office by Hitler's revolution, none was more improbable than Joachim von Ribbentrop. A successful middle-class businessman with Jewish friends, a romantic conservative who dreamt of restoring Germany's fallen monarchy and colonial empire, Ribbentrop joined the Nazis on the eve of their taking power. In spite of the hostility from both traditionalists and old guard Nazis, he began the sp ..."
Holy Dread(Updated) (Lees-Milne Diaries) 通过 James Lees-Milne, MichaelBloch Paperback, 224 页, 发布时间 2008 通过 Michael Russell Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-85955-313-1, ISBN: 0-85955-313-2
"Title: Holy Dread Binding: Paperback Author: James Lees-Milne Publisher: MICHAEL RUSSELL PUBLISHING LTD"
"In the ninth volume of James Lees-Milne's diaries, the ardour towards their eventual editor "M", has cooled to a more durable tenderness. There is no change however, in the sharpness of his observation. While his bride's finger waits outstretched Kenneth Clark discusses appreciatively with the priest the Coptic wedding ring he has chosen. An old and demanding Hillaire Belloc sets himself alight and has to be rolled on the bathroom floor ..."