Growing into War
Language: English
Published by Sutton Publishing Ltd, Thrupp, UK, 2005
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- Hardcover
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George Michael Gill (10 December 1923 - 20 October 2005) was an English television producer and director responsible for creating documentaries for the BBC He is chiefly remembered for Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark (1969) (director and co-producer) and Alistair Cooke's America (1973) (director and producer) Although the idea for Civilisation and its presenter, Kenneth Clark, were given to Gill, 'America', and the choice of presenter were entirely Gill's idea In total Gill made more than 150 films for television and cinema, and won more than 40 major international awardsThis first edition is near fine, in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine Very slight edgewear is the only detraction from pristine for both the book and the unclipped DJ 304 pp.
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- Title
- Growing into War
- Author
- Michael Gill
- Publisher
- Sutton Publishing Ltd, Thrupp, UK
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0750942851
- ISBN 13
- 9780750942850
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
Michael Gill is widely regarded as being one of the finest documentary film-makers of the twentieth century. Working as a junior reporter, he experienced the Second World War at first hand when he and his family were bombed out of their Canterbury home in June 1942. In August that year Michael joined the RAF and swiftly encountered the incomprehensible pettiness and rule-bound incongruities of service life.
Later commissioned into the RAF Intelligence Branch, he was attached to a tactical bomber squadron in the build-up to D-Day and flew as an observer on operations over the devastated Normandy countryside. As the war moved towards its awful conclusion, Michael journeyed to Holland and on into Germany with his unit, witnessing the final days of the war and its pathetic aftermath for ordinary Germans.
This beautifully observed memoir of the Second World War is head and shoulders above the many other accounts by those who did not fight the war 'at the sharp end', by virtue of Michael Gill's skilfully crafted narrative and believable characterisation of the people that inhabit its pages.
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