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‘One of my earliest experiences in the book world was proof-reading The Harrow School Register...I remember the frisson I felt when I read the end of one entry: ‘Executed 19 December, 1945.’ ... David Faber – whose maternal aunt, Catherine Macmillan (daughter of Harold Macmillan) married Julian Amery – has set out the whole saga with impressive skill and sympathy’
ail on Sunday 9/10
‘The biographical triptych is a difficult genre to realise, but David Faber has succeeded with great technical assurance, exhibiting, as a former MP, a sure understanding of the nuances of parliamentary life, as well as a personal empathy for the life and times of his subjects’
he Spectator 8/10
‘During the recent debate about whether British Muslims who seek to attack the realm could be charged with treason, it was mentioned that no such charges (under an act of Parliament passed in 1351) had been brought since the end of the Second World War. Almost the last Briton to be convicted of, and executed for, this offence was John Amery, a 33-year-old Old Harrovian whose father, Leo, happened to be the Secretary of State for India in Churchill’s wartime coalition government at the time of his offence’
iterary Review October
‘It is an extraordinary, gripping and moving account’
ogue magazine Diary ‘Buy the Book’, November issue
‘After the stresses that hit Faber’s personal life, writing the book was ‘tremendously cathartic’. The result is racy and readable, modern political history at its best’
atler magazine interview with David Faber, November issue
‘John...does not disappoint...a bankrupt conman dividing his time between Spain and France. At one point he was rumoured to be a diamond smuggler, gun runner and, with his marriages to two prostitutes, a bigamist...Faber does provide some fresh insights. I knew that a government doctor had declared John Amery to be suffering from “moral imbecility” but I hadn’t appreciated that, under the Criminal Lunatics Act 1884, this meant he should have been spared execution’
unday Telegraph 16/10
‘All the best families have a black sheep in them; and plenty of sons from leading politicians...But none has gone quite so spectacularly to the bad as John Amery, the elder son of Churchill’s old friend and wartime Secretary of State for India, who ended up being hanged for treason in 1945...It is clever of Faber to cast his life in the form of a group portrait with [Leo's] two sharply contrasting sons...Throughout the 1930s Leo was forever bailing him out of scrapes all over Europe, starting with motoring offences and racking up to jewel-theft and gun-running for France, with bigamy along the way. (He had a raffish charm, which secured him the surprising devotion of a succession of trusting women)...His book may give a sense of closure to the family. But John Amery in life was still a thoroughly nasty piece of work’
LS 18/11
‘This is a splendid family biography that counterpoints high society and low life to excellent effect’
Sunday Times, Top Five Biography Christmas books 5/12
'I was fascinated by David Faber’s Speaking for England, a triple biography of Churchill’s India secretary Leo Amery and his sons Julian and John, the latter hanged in Wandsworth prison in December 1945 after war years spent broadcasting for the Nazis'
DJ Taylor, Books of the Year, TLS 2/12
'It's a rich story, and Faber tells it well . . . deeply revealing' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
‘A poignant and fascinating family history’
Mail on Sunday 18/2
‘Mountaineer, adventurer, intelligence officer, Leo Amery led an exciting life even before he was appointed colonial secretary by Baldwin....but his elder son was a psychopath who tried to poison his baby brother. His sexual perversions shocked even his prostitute wife...Thoroughly researched and judiciously written, this is 20th century history with a Shakespearean twist’
Telegraph 24/2
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ail on Sunday 9/10
‘The biographical triptych is a difficult genre to realise, but David Faber has succeeded with great technical assurance, exhibiting, as a former MP, a sure understanding of the nuances of parliamentary life, as well as a personal empathy for the life and times of his subjects’
he Spectator 8/10
‘During the recent debate about whether British Muslims who seek to attack the realm could be charged with treason, it was mentioned that no such charges (under an act of Parliament passed in 1351) had been brought since the end of the Second World War. Almost the last Briton to be convicted of, and executed for, this offence was John Amery, a 33-year-old Old Harrovian whose father, Leo, happened to be the Secretary of State for India in Churchill’s wartime coalition government at the time of his offence’
iterary Review October
‘It is an extraordinary, gripping and moving account’
ogue magazine Diary ‘Buy the Book’, November issue
‘After the stresses that hit Faber’s personal life, writing the book was ‘tremendously cathartic’. The result is racy and readable, modern political history at its best’
atler magazine interview with David Faber, November issue
‘John...does not disappoint...a bankrupt conman dividing his time between Spain and France. At one point he was rumoured to be a diamond smuggler, gun runner and, with his marriages to two prostitutes, a bigamist...Faber does provide some fresh insights. I knew that a government doctor had declared John Amery to be suffering from “moral imbecility” but I hadn’t appreciated that, under the Criminal Lunatics Act 1884, this meant he should have been spared execution’
unday Telegraph 16/10
‘All the best families have a black sheep in them; and plenty of sons from leading politicians...But none has gone quite so spectacularly to the bad as John Amery, the elder son of Churchill’s old friend and wartime Secretary of State for India, who ended up being hanged for treason in 1945...It is clever of Faber to cast his life in the form of a group portrait with [Leo's] two sharply contrasting sons...Throughout the 1930s Leo was forever bailing him out of scrapes all over Europe, starting with motoring offences and racking up to jewel-theft and gun-running for France, with bigamy along the way. (He had a raffish charm, which secured him the surprising devotion of a succession of trusting women)...His book may give a sense of closure to the family. But John Amery in life was still a thoroughly nasty piece of work’
LS 18/11
‘This is a splendid family biography that counterpoints high society and low life to excellent effect’
Sunday Times, Top Five Biography Christmas books 5/12
'I was fascinated by David Faber’s Speaking for England, a triple biography of Churchill’s India secretary Leo Amery and his sons Julian and John, the latter hanged in Wandsworth prison in December 1945 after war years spent broadcasting for the Nazis'
DJ Taylor, Books of the Year, TLS 2/12
'It's a rich story, and Faber tells it well . . . deeply revealing' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
‘A poignant and fascinating family history’
Mail on Sunday 18/2
‘Mountaineer, adventurer, intelligence officer, Leo Amery led an exciting life even before he was appointed colonial secretary by Baldwin....but his elder son was a psychopath who tried to poison his baby brother. His sexual perversions shocked even his prostitute wife...Thoroughly researched and judiciously written, this is 20th century history with a Shakespearean twist’
Telegraph 24/2
SPEAKING FOR ENGLAND is the extraordinary true story of an English political tragedy: the bizarre tale of how the son of a member of Churchill's wartime Cabinet was hanged for treason -- one of the last British citizens to suffer that fate.
John Amery had been born into a life of privilege, if not luxury -- his father Leo was a prominent Conservative MP and minister, and his brother Julian also went on to a political career of his own. But John was always different, a troubled child who grew into a difficult and tortured adult, with a skewed sense of patriotism leading him not just to a series of broadcasts on behalf of the Germans during the Second World War, but also to an attempt to recruit a 'Legion of St George' to take up arms against the Russians. These and other charges resulted in his conviction for treason, and execution. It is the irony and tragedy of the Amery family that John's sense of duty, although channelled in a different direction, was as strong as that of his father, who had been instrumental in bringing about Chamberlain's downfall after the Munich crisis, not least in his famous exhortation in the House of Commons to 'Speak for England!'
Focusing on the fascinating lives of this father and his two sons, and how they were affected by John's inexorable demise, David Faber has constructed a riveting and deeply moving account of the tragedy of an English political family. Blending biography, history and taut narrative with tremendous skill, he has shed new light on both an extraordinary human story and the society that witnessed it.
John Amery had been born into a life of privilege, if not luxury -- his father Leo was a prominent Conservative MP and minister, and his brother Julian also went on to a political career of his own. But John was always different, a troubled child who grew into a difficult and tortured adult, with a skewed sense of patriotism leading him not just to a series of broadcasts on behalf of the Germans during the Second World War, but also to an attempt to recruit a 'Legion of St George' to take up arms against the Russians. These and other charges resulted in his conviction for treason, and execution. It is the irony and tragedy of the Amery family that John's sense of duty, although channelled in a different direction, was as strong as that of his father, who had been instrumental in bringing about Chamberlain's downfall after the Munich crisis, not least in his famous exhortation in the House of Commons to 'Speak for England!'
Focusing on the fascinating lives of this father and his two sons, and how they were affected by John's inexorable demise, David Faber has constructed a riveting and deeply moving account of the tragedy of an English political family. Blending biography, history and taut narrative with tremendous skill, he has shed new light on both an extraordinary human story and the society that witnessed it.
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- ÉditeurPocket Books
- Date d'édition2007
- ISBN 10 1416525963
- ISBN 13 9781416525967
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages624
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