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Patrick Wright
Patrick Wright’s Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, will be published in October by Oxford. The sequel, which will appear next year, is concerned with Rex Warner, Barbara Castle, Stanley Spencer, Clement Attlee, A.J. Ayer and the other British delegates who visited China in 1954, the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic.
Selected bibliography
- Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War (2007) Buy this book
- Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine (2000)
- The River: The Thames in Our Time (1999)
- The Village That Died for England: The Strange Story of Tyneham (1995)
- A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London (1992)
- On Living in an Old Country: National Past in Contemporary Britain (1985)
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