Peter Conradi

Ernst Hanfstaengl was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler; he even claimed to have devised the chant of Sieg Heil. However, when the two men fell out, he fled to Britain, where he was interned and later transferred to America. There, he worked as the star of Roosevelt's 'S-Project,' informing on 400 leading Nazis and creating a...

The bestselling book that inspired the Oscar and BAFTA award-winning film. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot....

Tin Tin's Snowy, Odysseus's Argos, Darwin's Polly, Mary Queen of Scots's 22 lap-dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Flush... Behind every great man or woman is a dog. A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs. Embracing the intriguing and the provocative, the essential and the trivial, Peter J. Conradi forays...