The King’s War

The Friendship of George VI and Lionel Logue During World War II

By: Peter Conradi, Mark Logue

Narrated by: Greg Patmore

Following the New York Times best-selling The King’s Speech, this eagerly anticipated sequel takes King George VI and his confidant and speech therapist Lionel Logue into the darkest days of World War II.

The broadcast that George VI made to the British nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi-Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic, Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: In the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch’s side.

The King’s War follows that relationship through the dangerous days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-Day to eventual victory in 1945 - and beyond. Like the first book, it is written by Peter Conradi, a London Sunday Times journalist, and Mark Logue (Lionel’s grandson), and again draws on exclusive material from the Logue Archive - the collection of diaries, letters, and other documents left by Lionel and his feisty wife, Myrtle. This gripping narrative provides a fascinating portrait of two men and their respective families - the Windsors and the Logues - as they together face the greatest challenge in Britain’s history.

©2019 Peter Conradi and Mark Logue (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Repetitive

I really enjoyed listening to the first book. It had new information that I haven’t read in the multitudes of other books about the British monarchy. This book, however, was a flop. The amount of repetitive information ie information that it already appeared in the original book is ridiculous. I expected some overlap, but this could’ve just been done as an addendum to the original book, because there was no reason that it needed to be a standalone book. There was just not enough new information. They use the same Anecdote that were used in the original book. They could’ve at least gave the same information but from a different viewpoint so we got to see how the Queen or Myrtle or someone lived those same events but we didn’t. This was just a quick money grab