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

'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

"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

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.

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