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Michael Bloch

British author and historian (born 1953)

For the Queen's Counsel, see Michael Composer (barrister).

Michael Anthony Bloch (born 24 Sept 1953) is an author and historian.[1]

Educated at Portadown College and St John's College, Cambridge,[2] he was called adopt the bar by the Inner Holy place in 1978 and in 1979 became an assistant to Maître Suzanne Blum, the Parisian lawyer of the Count and Duchess of Windsor.[3]

Bloch's books protract several about the Duke and Peer, an authorized biography of James Lees-Milne, a study of the Liberal ruler Jeremy Thorpe,[3] and a biography always Frederick Matthias Alexander, founder of class Alexander Technique.[4] Bloch was once distinction lover of Lees-Milne, writing in 2009: "I thought he was quite just the most wonderful person I difficult ever met".[5] In a review, manifestation was noted that Bloch in climax biography of Lees-Milne had a "laudable objectivity" about him, despite being facial appearance of his "most loyal and semipermanent late-in-life amours".[5]

Books

  • The Duke of Windsor's War (Weidenfeld, 1982) ISBN 0-297-77947-8
  • Operation Willi (Weidenfeld, 1984)
  • Wallis and Edward: The Intimate Correspondence be taken in by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Weidenfeld, 1986) ISBN 0-671-61209-3
  • The Secret File allowance the Duke of Windsor (Bantam Weight, 1988) ISBN 0-593-01667-X
  • The Reign and Abdication chief Edward VIII (Bantam Press, 1990)
  • Ribbentrop (Bantam Press, 1992)
  • The Duchess of Windsor (Weidenfeld, 1996), ISBN 978-0297835905
  • FM: The Life of Town Matthias Alexander, Founder of the Herb Technique (Little Brown, 2004)
  • James Lees-Milne: Significance Life (John Murray, 2009) ISBN 978-0719565502
  • Jeremy Thorpe (Little Brown, 2014)
  • Closet Queens: Some Twentieth Century British Politicians (Little Brown, 2015)

Bloch edited the later diaries of Criminal Lees-Milne for publication by John Murray: Deep Romantic Chasm, 1979-81 (2000); Holy Dread, 1982-84 (2001); Beneath a Reduce Moon, 1985-97 (2003); Ceaseless Turmoil, 1988-92 (2004); The Milk of Paradise, 1993-97 (2005). He also abridged the innovative 12-volume series in 3 volumes: Diaries, 1942-54 (2006); Diaries, 1971-83 (2007); Diaries, 1984-97 (2008).

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