The king says! The story of overcoming, debt and honor, about leadership, about the hierarchy and real friendship
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In 1926, the Duke of York, who suffered from stuttering since childhood, turned to a self-taught speech therapist, an emigrant from Australia named Lionel Log for help. It was a desperate step: a lot of effort was spent on the fight against this physical disadvantage, with the involvement of the best specialists of that time - to no avail, and each public performance by the duke became torture for both the audience and for the speaker himself. For the first time crossing the threshold of the modest reception of Log, the royal son did not suggest that after ten years it would become a monarch - the priority right of the throne of the throne belonged to his eldest brother, David, but personal happiness turned out to be the last higher than the debt.
Lionel Log, whom the medical luminary was considered an impostor and a charlatan, managed to succeed, while the rest were forced to sign in their impotence. He developed his own treatment method and remained next to his eminent patient for many years, during difficult trials for the country and all of Europe. Having ascended the throne on the eve of World War II, George VI rallied the British in the fight against Nazism and became a true leader. Throughout the years of government, starting with coronation speech in 1937 and ending with the last Christmas appeal to the nation and the peoples of the British Empire in December 1951, the king spoke with his people. He said due to the fact that “a simple man from the colonies” met in his way - Lionel Log.
The authors of this documentary book based on letters, diaries, memoirs and medical records are Mark Log, the grandson of the Australian speech therapist and the keeper of his archive, and Peter Konradi, the writer and journalist, an employee of the newspaper Sunday Times
Lionel Log, whom the medical luminary was considered an impostor and a charlatan, managed to succeed, while the rest were forced to sign in their impotence. He developed his own treatment method and remained next to his eminent patient for many years, during difficult trials for the country and all of Europe. Having ascended the throne on the eve of World War II, George VI rallied the British in the fight against Nazism and became a true leader. Throughout the years of government, starting with coronation speech in 1937 and ending with the last Christmas appeal to the nation and the peoples of the British Empire in December 1951, the king spoke with his people. He said due to the fact that “a simple man from the colonies” met in his way - Lionel Log.
The authors of this documentary book based on letters, diaries, memoirs and medical records are Mark Log, the grandson of the Australian speech therapist and the keeper of his archive, and Peter Konradi, the writer and journalist, an employee of the newspaper Sunday Times
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Series:
Series: Historical interest
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:18+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-16161-0
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