Eclipse by Alan Moorehead (GT271)

Published 1946: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 255 clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, mild speckled endpapers and edges. Covers are rubbed and faded with time consistent with age but remain firm and intact.(GT271)

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Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to their last operation of the war in Europe -- the occupation of Germany. Alan Moorehead's original intention was to chronicle the collapse of German Europe sociologically and politically, psychologically and even emotionally. He was after atmosphere more than fact, especially since Eclipse was written too soon after the fact for responsible history. In the final tally, Eclipse is a commentary. Starting with the collapse in Italy, Moorehead advances through France, the Rhine, finally into the heart of Germany where the last Nazis were finally defeated.

Alan Moorehead was lionised as the literary man of action: the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II; author of award winning books; star travel writer of The New Yorker; pioneer publicist of wildlife conservation. At the height of his success, his writing suddenly stopped and when, 17 years later, his death was announced, he seemed a heroic figure from the past. His fame as a writer gave him the friendship of Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Field Marshall Montgomery and the courtship and marriage of his beautiful wife Lucy Milner.

After 1945, he turned to writing books, including Eclipse, Gallipoli (for which he won the Duff Cooper Prize), The White Nile, The Blue Nile, and finally, A Late Education. He was awarded an OBE in 1946, and died in 1983.

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