Film Focus:
The King's Speech



Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush



GEORGE VI and ELIZABETH

King George VI & Queen Elizabeth: A Portrait, by Christopher Warwick. Beaufort, 1985.
The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952, by Sarah Bradford. St. Martin's, 1989.
The Last Emperor: An Intimate Account of George VI and the Fall of his Empire, by Peter Townsend. S&S, 1976.
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: A 20th-century Life. Grania Forbes. Pavillion, 1999.
Queen Elizabeth : a portrait of the Queen Mother, by Penelope Mortimer. St. Martin's, 1986.
The Queen Mother: The Official Biography, by William Shawcross. Knopf, 2009.


Their Circle

The Roosevelts and the Royals: Franklin and Eleanor, the King and Queen of England, and the Friendship that Changed History , by Will Swift. Wiley, 2004.
The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication. Susan. A. Williams. Palgrave, Macmillian, 2004.
Churchill, by Paul Johnson. Viking, 2009.

Queen and County: The 50-Year Reign of Elizabeth IIl, by William Shawcross. S&S, 2002.
Baldwin: A Biography, by Keith Middlemas. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969.


And Their Times

After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World, by A. N. Wilson. FSG, 2005
Austerity Britian, 1945--1951, by David Kynaston. Walker, 2008
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning , by John Lukacs. Basic, 2008
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, by Jan Morris. HBJ, 1978
The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain between the Wars, by Richard Overy. Viking, 2009.
To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941, by Thomas Parrish. Smithsonian, 2009



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