Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Leslie Howard, John Profumo, Otho Prior-Palmer, Alastair Hetherington, Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman, Ashley Bramall, Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe. Excerpt: Alastair Hetherington Hector Alastair Hetherington (31 October 1919 3 October 1999) was a British journalist, newspaper editor and academic. For nearly twenty years he was the editor of The Guardian, and is regarded as one of the leading editors of the second half of the twentieth century. Early years Hetherington was the son of Sir Hector Hetherington, professor of logic and philosophy at University College, Cardiff and later Principal of the University of Glasgow . He was educated at Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk, from 1933 to 1937 and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1938 to 1940, but his time at Oxford was interrupted by the Second World War . Though his myopia initially kept him from duty in a combat regiment, eventually he joined the Royal Armoured Corps and subsequently transferred to the Northamptonshire Yeomanry . Shortly after the Normandy landings he was a tank captain advancing towards Vire when his tank was destroyed. He later took part in the relief of Antwerp and ended his army career as a major in the Intelligence Corps, during which time he wrote a Military Geography of Schleswig-Holstein . Journalist and editor Based on three months as a trainee sub-editor for the Glasgow Herald, Hetherington was offered a posting after his demobilization as managing editor of Die Welt, the first German national newspaper to be produced in the British zone after the war. The experience confirmed his decision to pursue a career in journalism rather than academia, and he rejoined the Glasgow Herald a year later as a sub-editor and writer of articles on defence matters. Editorship of The G...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Northamptonshire Yeomanry Officers: Leslie Howard, John Profumo, Otho Prior-Palmer, Alastair Hetherington, Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman. To get started finding Northamptonshire Yeomanry Officers: Leslie Howard, John Profumo, Otho Prior-Palmer, Alastair Hetherington, Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
48
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155714938
Northamptonshire Yeomanry Officers: Leslie Howard, John Profumo, Otho Prior-Palmer, Alastair Hetherington, Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Leslie Howard, John Profumo, Otho Prior-Palmer, Alastair Hetherington, Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman, Ashley Bramall, Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe. Excerpt: Alastair Hetherington Hector Alastair Hetherington (31 October 1919 3 October 1999) was a British journalist, newspaper editor and academic. For nearly twenty years he was the editor of The Guardian, and is regarded as one of the leading editors of the second half of the twentieth century. Early years Hetherington was the son of Sir Hector Hetherington, professor of logic and philosophy at University College, Cardiff and later Principal of the University of Glasgow . He was educated at Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk, from 1933 to 1937 and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1938 to 1940, but his time at Oxford was interrupted by the Second World War . Though his myopia initially kept him from duty in a combat regiment, eventually he joined the Royal Armoured Corps and subsequently transferred to the Northamptonshire Yeomanry . Shortly after the Normandy landings he was a tank captain advancing towards Vire when his tank was destroyed. He later took part in the relief of Antwerp and ended his army career as a major in the Intelligence Corps, during which time he wrote a Military Geography of Schleswig-Holstein . Journalist and editor Based on three months as a trainee sub-editor for the Glasgow Herald, Hetherington was offered a posting after his demobilization as managing editor of Die Welt, the first German national newspaper to be produced in the British zone after the war. The experience confirmed his decision to pursue a career in journalism rather than academia, and he rejoined the Glasgow Herald a year later as a sub-editor and writer of articles on defence matters. Editorship of The G...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Northamptonshire Yeomanry Officers: Leslie Howard, John Profumo, Otho Prior-Palmer, Alastair Hetherington, Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman. To get started finding Northamptonshire Yeomanry Officers: Leslie Howard, John Profumo, Otho Prior-Palmer, Alastair Hetherington, Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.