The author, Paul O'Keeffe, is a freelance lecturer and writer from Liverpool, known for his scholarly work on Wyndham Lewis. He earned his Ph.D. with a critical edition of Lewis's novel "Tarr" and received recognition for his 2000 study "Some Sort of Genius," which explores Lewis's contributions to literature. O'Keeffe's expertise highlights his deep engagement with Lewis's work and its significance in the literary landscape.
Despite an admission, in 1939, that he had been wrong about Hitler, his
reputation never recovered from the stigma of Fascism.After the Second World
War, spent in penniless and bitter exile in Canada, he returned to London and,
in the last decade of his life, received some measure of the success and
recognition he had been denied for so long. schovat popis
Drawing on a multiplicity of contemporary voices and viewpoints, Paul O'Keeffe
brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds and smells of the
battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot.
'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The Times Charles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16 April 1746, at Culloden, his Jacobite army was overpowered in under forty minutes. Its brutal repercussions, however, endured for years, its legacy for centuries. Paul O'Keeffe follows the Jacobite army from initial victories to calamitous defeat. Exploring the battle's aftermath, he chronicles the Jacobite prisoners paying for their treason on block and gibbet while those granted 'the King's mercy' suffered the fate of forced labour on plantations in the colonies. While Stuart's cause eventually acquired an aura of romanticism, the Jacobite Rising remains one of the most bloody and divisive conflicts in British domestic history, which resonates to this day. 'Detailed, vivid - and not for the faint-hearted' Financial Times 'Fascinating, meticulously researched... tremendous' Daily Mail 'Intensely readable... and vividly written' Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books
