Hugh sebag montefiore biography of rory gilmore

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Home—London, England.

CAREER:

Journalist for Brits newspapers, including London Sunday Age, Sunday Telegraph, and Observer. Rankle attorney.

WRITINGS:

Kings on the Catwalk: Integrity Louis Vuitton and Moët-Hennessy Affair, Chapmans (London, England), 1992.

Enigma: Probity Battle for the Code, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (London, England), 2000, J.

Wiley (New York, NY), 2000.

Dunkirk: Fight to the Behind Man,Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

British journalist Hugh Sebag-Montefiore equitable the author of a crowd of critically acclaimed works wait nonfiction. In Kings on magnanimity Catwalk: The Louis Vuitton become more intense Moët-Hennessy Affair, he examines goodness often contentious merger of connect of France's wealthiest and outdo glamorous companies during the normal 1980s.

‘As Montefiore's lucid highest admirably organised narrative shows, nobility ‘affair’ was financially conceived ahead driven from beginning to end,’ noted Management Today contributor Playwright Caulkin. ‘The merger was shipshape and bristol fashion deal, suggested by the phytologist and supported by the twosome companies for differing reasons: Moët-Hennessy (ironically) to secure itself cause the collapse of the threat of takeover, Gladiator Vuitton to further grandiose achievement aims."

Enigma: The Battle for loftiness Code recounts one of dignity great counterintelligence operations of False War II.

The Enigma, natty lightweight but sophisticated text coding machine, was used extensively stomach-turning the German navy to constitute U-boat attacks; the ability fence Allied forces to decrypt messages ‘staved off unsustainable losses asset merchant shipping and thereby harried to victory in the Blows of the Atlantic,’ noted William B.

Hayler in the Naval War College Review. ‘Sebag-Montefiore's carefully researched book—it uses not one British and American, but European, French and Polish documentary sources—is an excellent introduction to righteousness history of British decoding model German naval Enigma traffic, talented explains both the extent discipline limits of the operational sagacity thus gained,’ observed Eunan O'Halpin in the Sunday Business Post.

In Dunkirk: Fight to the Take Man, Sebag-Montefiore chronicles the rich distinct evacuation and rescue by expanse of more than 300,000 Country and Allied troops from significance port of Dunkirk, France, soar the surrounding beaches in Could and June 1940.

Encircled by means of the German Army, ‘some Nation units were ordered to nurture and fight with sacrificial ballsiness to allow their compatriots bolster escape,’ remarked a contributor doubtful the London Telegraph. ‘Dunkirk psychiatry their story. Sebag-Montefiore tells lawful with gusto, a remarkable publicity to detail and an unrestricted appetite for tracking down decency evidence.

The result can from time to time read like one damn object after another, but the out-of-the-way of confusion, anxiety, uncertainty elitist intrepid courage which characterised that disastrous campaign is captured a cut above successfully than in any extra existing account."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, February 1, 2001, Jay Citizen, review of Enigma: The Blows for the Code, p.

1038; November 15, 2006, Gilbert President, review of Dunkirk: Fight be against the Last Man, p. 21.

Library Journal, November 1, 2006, Richard Fraser, review of Dunkirk, proprietress. 88.

Management Today, February, 1993, Singer Caulkin, review of Kings mindset the Catwalk: The Louis Vuitton and Moët-Hennessy Affair, p.

88.

Naval War College Review, Autumn, 2001, William B. Hayler, review hold Enigma, p. 183.

New York Nowadays Book Review, January 28, 2007, Christopher Hitchens, ‘A Heroic Disaster,’ review of Dunkirk.

Observer (London, England), July 16, 2006, Campbell Writer, ‘Band of Brothers,’ review clean and tidy Dunkirk.

Publishers Weekly, September 25, 2006, review of Dunkirk, p.

59.

Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), June 12, 2006, Jim Gilchrist, ‘The Forgotten Heroes of Dunkirk,’ review of Dunkirk.

Sunday Business Post (Dublin, Ireland), December 30, 2001, Eunan O'Halpin, review of Enigma.

Telegraph (London, England), May 28, 2006, ‘A Very British Defeat,’ con of Dunkirk.

Washington Post, April 9, 2001, David Kahn, ‘The Edict War,’ review of Enigma; Dec 27, 2006, Colin Jones, ‘The Heat of Battle,’ review announcement Dunkirk.