Alan Moorehead by Tom Pocock

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps, barcode and numbering on inside pages. Borrower card pocket has been removed from inside front cover and taken some of the book surface with it. Marks on foredges. Dust jacket is worn but intact. Now enclosed in protective covering.

Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most famous war correspondent of the Second World War, the award-winning and best-selling author of books that vividly combine adventure and history, the star travel writer of The New Yorker, and a pioneer advocate of wildlife conservation.

Then, at the height of his success, his writings suddenly stopped, and when, seventeen years later, his death was announced, he seemed a heroic figure from the past.

With exclusive access to unpublished letters and diaries and after extensive interviews with the Moorhead family and friends, Tom Pocock tells the story of the young Australian whose fame as a writer gave him the friendships of Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Field Marshall Montgomery and whose courtship and marriage to the beautiful Lucy Milner is reflected in a remarkable sequence of love letters. (book flap)