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Denys Blakeway is a British television producer and author who is best known for documentaries and books about contemporary history. In 1994 he set up Blakeway Productions, a television company based in London.
May 13, 2010 · Denis Blakeway's book starts with national loss with King George V and Rudyard Kipling dying. It ends too reflecting on loss: that of a man who could have been a modernising king, young britons killed fighting in Spain and Crystal Palace, a national treasure, burning down.
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Jun 9, 2011 · Portrayed in Denys Blakeway’s enthralling and lively book as ‘the hinge of the decade’, it was a year of royal crises, social and political turning points and the harbinger of a second,...
Dec 28, 2019 · Through extracts from diaries of shopkeepers, socialites, bishops, and volunteers in Spain, and the memoirs of the unemployed, housewives and hostesses, as well as the contemporary accounts of politicians, journalists and poets, Blakeway offers a compelling and vivid account of a turning point in our nation's story."--Publisher description
Jun 27, 2010 · Buy 'The Last Dance' by Denys Blakeway from Telegraph Books or call 0844 871 1515. Adam Sisman praises Denys Blakeway's The Last Dance, a study of the pivotal year in which Britain first...
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May 22, 2010 · A major part of Blakeway’s year is taken up with posh Brits flirting with what Diana and Unity Mitford called their ‘darling storms’, the Nazi leaderships’ SS bodyguards.
Jan 1, 2011 · Alongside 'The Last Dance' Denys has written books about British nuclear tests in the 1950s, the Falklands War and The Queen (whose family history has been the subject of many of his programmes). Denys lives in Hampshire, England. He is married to Denise Johnstone-Burt, the publisher, and has three daughters.
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