Frank Owen (1) (1905–1979)
Auteur de Guilty Men
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Œuvres de Frank Owen
His was the kingdom, 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Owen, Humphrey Frank
- Date de naissance
- 1905-11-04
- Date de décès
- 1979-01-23
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Études
- Monmouth School
Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge - Professions
- newspaper editor
politician - Organisations
- Liberal Party
UK Parliament
Evening Standard [editor]
Daily Mail [editor] - Prix et distinctions
- OBE
- Courte biographie
- Humphrey Frank Owen (27 September 1905 – 23 January 1979) was a British journalist and Liberal Member of Parliament. He was a Lloyd Georgite Liberal MP for Hereford between 1929 and 1931. He worked as a journalist and became editor of the Evening Standard in 1938 and the Daily Mail in 1947. During the War he edited SEAC, The Services Newspaper of South East Asia Command. After a period as a television journalist, he again fought the Hereford seat in 1955 and in a by-election in 1956. He was one of the authors of Guilty Men, a denunciation of appeasement published in summer of 1940. He wrote a biography Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George His Life and Times (Hutchinson of London; 1954).
Membres
Critiques
Owen, Frank (Contributor); Foot, Michael (Contributor); Howard, Peter (Contributor)
Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, un ladro e scassinatore inglese offre i propri servigi come spia alla Germania nazista ma, nel mentre, fa il doppio gioco e tenta di informare l'Intelligence del servizio britannico. Il film s'ispira alla storia vera di Eddie Chapman, ladro e spia inglese durante la guerra (fonte: amazon.it)
Fictionalised account of the activities of real-life mercenary double agent Eddie Chapman, played here with suave, charming aplomb by Christopher Plummer. The story of how a pre-war safecracker becomes both a German and British agent is interesting but never fully catches fire and lacks any real feeling if danger or excitement. Director Terence Young tries to establish a James Bondesque atmosphere but it doesn't really work with the serious wartime nature of the material. It's a decent story, however, made highly watchable by Plummer's cheeky performance, essaying Chapman's amoral jauntiness to great effect. Yul Brynner gives great support as Baron Von Grunen, Chapman's monocle-sporting, aristocratic handler, while Romy Schneider delivers some fine on / off romantic interest as Helga Lindstrom.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 166
- Popularité
- #127,845
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 52
- Langues
- 1
At this dark time, three journalists — including future Labour Party leader Michael Foot — wrote this short book. The ‘guilty men’ of the title are not just the appeasers, above all Chamberlain, but all the other Tory fools who saw no particular need to get Britain ready for the coming war. Their blind overconfidence — believing in the futility of war, in Mr. Hitler’s trustworthiness, in the invincibility of the British empire — led them to do almost nothing to re-arm in time. It was only with Winston Churchill’s arrival at Number 10 that Britain’s real war against Germany began.
At the time, the book was hated by most reviewers. But it was a hugely popular best-seller and I can see why. The case against Chamberlain and his cronies, usually based on their own words, is essentially unanswerable. Yet even today there are people — including some noted historians — who buy into the myth that Britain used the year after the Munich pact, as well as the next eight months of ‘phoney war’, to rearm. They did nothing of the sort. When the British forces were being kicked off the continent it was entirely due to the fact that the Germans too had time to rearm, which they did rather effectively, and their Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe were far better equipped and battle-ready than the British forces trapped on that French beach.
Looking back decades later, Michael Foot wrote about the revisionists who were already encouraging a more generous evaluation of Chamberlain. He would have none of it. The old umbrella-carrying fool, with a worthless piece of paper in his hands, proclaiming ‘peace in our time’ when there was no peace — he nearly brought an end to Britain as an independent country. Churchill arrived in the nick of time to prevent a disaster.
There are bits of this hastily-scribbled book that don’t read as well today as they may have in 1940. The comments about Poland, for example, are very unfair to the Poles and inaccurate too. But on the whole, this books and the arguments it makes about appeasement and the need to stand up to bullying dictators is as relevant today as when it was first written.… (plus d'informations)