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Alan Whicker - Whicker’s War - 9780007205080 - KEX0296040
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Whicker’s War

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Description for Whicker’s War Paperback. Alan Whicker is quite simply a legend. A visionary and master of his craft, his television shows from the fifties to the nineties almost single handed invented the language of travel television and earned him the status of one of the most foremost of British media icons. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; HBWQ; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 234.

Alan Whicker is quite simply a legend. A visionary and master of his craft, his television shows from the fifties to the nineties almost single handed invented the language of travel television and earned him the status of one of the most foremost of British media icons.

Yet throughout his forty years in TV he was steadfast in his belief that his programmes should not be about himself but about those people he encountered. Until this year when he was persuaded, as part of the 60th anniversary of the invasion ... Read more

This book uses these programmes as the starting point to tell the story of Alan Whicker's remarkable war.

Alan Whicker joined the Army Film and Photo Unit as an 18-year-old army officer, following the Allied advance through Italy, from Sicily to Venice. He filmed the troops on the front line, met Montgomery, and other military luminaries, filmed the battered body of Mussolini after his execution and accepted the surrender of the SS in Milan. This is remarkable account of the Italian campaign of 1943 and 1944 as he retraces of his steps over sixty years later. Beautifully written, poignant with humour and pathos this is a masterful book by one of the 20th centuries greatest TV journalists.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007205080
SKU
KEX0296040
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3

About Alan Whicker
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Whicker’s War
'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 ... Read more

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