The Bitter Taste of Victory
“The award of a five-year Starting Grant from the European Research Council provided me with a period of leave that enabled me to complete the research and writing of this book and also brought in a team of researchers and experts to King’s. I am enormously appreciative of these resources of time and money and most of all am thankful for the presence of scholars with related interests; they have broadened the conversation and pushed my work in unexpected directions. At the same time the award of... a Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust has granted me additional travel funds and research assistance and, crucially, places in which to write.While writing I have been grateful once again for the company and friendship of fellow writers: notably Juliet Gardiner, who has also helped shape the project from the outset, and Hannah Mulder, who was with me speeding across windy beaches as I started the book proposal and as I ended the coda. Juliet also read the whole manuscript and offered invaluable, demanding comments, as did Lisa Appignanesi, Ian Patterson and Alexandra Harris, whose high standards continue to be a source of inspiration and whose friendship remains a source of support.This book has brought me outside my own comfort zones of British culture and biography into the realms of military history, German literature and Cold War politics.MoreLess
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