"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

"Movement 2. The rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of WWII. In England, even as the whirl of marriages and adulteries, fashions a

'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers Anthony Pow

Powell's monumental 12-part series traces the lives of a wide variety of characters in London from World War I until the 1960s.

Presents the story of how French composer Olivier Messiaen was able to overcome the desolation of a World War II prison camp through the power of music.