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Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family

Jeremy Lewis

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Description:A remarkable group portrait of one English family -- the famed, intriguing and pioneering Greenes.In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles from London. There they were to found a remarkable dynasty -- fathering twelve children between them -- each of whom were to lead varied, well-documented and extraordinary lives.This book explores for the first time this generation of the Greene family in colourful detail -- their relationships and shared history, and their lives -- as explorers, writers, doctors, spies, politicians and much more. There is Graham, one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century; Hugh, the Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent in the years leading up to WWII, and later Director-General of the BBC; Raymond, a brilliant mountaineer and medical manwho took part in the 1933 Everest expedition; their sister Elisabeth, MI6 agent, enlisting family and friends into the secret service; cousin Ben, a pacifist and Labour Party activist who was interned in 1940 at the same time as Oswald Mosley; his sister, Barbara, who spent the war in Germany; and their younger brother Felix, a pioneer of radio journalism and apologist for Communist China, who moved to a commune in California with his cousin Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley; and Herbert, the black sheep of the family, fantasist and amateur spy.Interlacing biography, history, high adventure and scenes from literary life, Shades of Greene provides a riveting insight into the self-confident, enterprising, upper middle-class English world that flourished between the 1920s and the 1970s: and into a truly remarkable tribe.From the Trade Paperback edition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family. To get started finding Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A remarkable group portrait of one English family -- the famed, intriguing and pioneering Greenes.In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles from London. There they were to found a remarkable dynasty -- fathering twelve children between them -- each of whom were to lead varied, well-documented and extraordinary lives.This book explores for the first time this generation of the Greene family in colourful detail -- their relationships and shared history, and their lives -- as explorers, writers, doctors, spies, politicians and much more. There is Graham, one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century; Hugh, the Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent in the years leading up to WWII, and later Director-General of the BBC; Raymond, a brilliant mountaineer and medical manwho took part in the 1933 Everest expedition; their sister Elisabeth, MI6 agent, enlisting family and friends into the secret service; cousin Ben, a pacifist and Labour Party activist who was interned in 1940 at the same time as Oswald Mosley; his sister, Barbara, who spent the war in Germany; and their younger brother Felix, a pioneer of radio journalism and apologist for Communist China, who moved to a commune in California with his cousin Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley; and Herbert, the black sheep of the family, fantasist and amateur spy.Interlacing biography, history, high adventure and scenes from literary life, Shades of Greene provides a riveting insight into the self-confident, enterprising, upper middle-class English world that flourished between the 1920s and the 1970s: and into a truly remarkable tribe.From the Trade Paperback edition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family. To get started finding Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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