The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire
Deborah Baker, "The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire"
English | ISBN: 1555978045 | 2018 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 1287 KB
English | ISBN: 1555978045 | 2018 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 1287 KB
A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India
John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers―W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender―achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest’s summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain’s struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man’s wartime loyalties would lie.
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