Jim Ring is an author and film-maker. Four of his titles are being reissued in Faber Finds:
Erskine Childers;
How the English Made the Alps;
We Come Unseen: The Untold Story of Britain's Cold War
Submariners;
Riviera: The Rise and Rise of the C
ôt
e d'Azur., Jim Ring's 1996 début,
Erskine Childers, won the Marsh Prize for biography. It was followed by
How the English Made the Alps which was described as 'fascinating' by the
Daily Telegraph and 'evocative and entertaining' by the
Financial Times. His collective biography of Britain's leading Cold War submariners,
We Come Unseen, won the Mountbatten Prize and was called 'a welcome acknowledgement of one of the Cold War's little-known aspects' by the
Sunday Telegraph.
For English read British which is not to quibble with the title but, as Jim Ring himself explains, 'During the period on which this book focuses, it was the custom - in the words of a Scot - ''to let the part - the larger part - speak for the whole.'' Those countries which received...
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