{"product_id":"whickers-war-9780007205080","title":"WHICKERS WAR","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 in 1943.'\u003cbr\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Riveting – a marathon television series, now a compulsive and fascinating book…’\u003cbr\u003eRadio 4\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e'My bookshelf would certainly be poorer without this written record. Inspired…and inspiring.'\u003cbr\u003eManchester Evening News\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e'It almost doesn't seem like a book at all, for so familiar is the Whicker economy of language and word rhythms that it is impossible to look over the opening paragraphs without hearing the Whicker voice reading the words out loud inside your head.'\u003cbr\u003eJean Moir, Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e'One of the outstanding broadcasters of the age and a reporter with notable gifts. Surrounded by carnage, corpses and the memory of lost friends, his familiar voice was as lilting and playful as ever, but laced with elegy…It was beautifully written and delivered with such assurance that even the pauses were eloquent.'\u003cbr\u003eStephen Pile, Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766681174359,"sku":"9780007205080","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780007205080.jpg?v=1758710847","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/whickers-war-9780007205080","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}