Costa Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 12 (1982) Winner
Edward Crankshaw
エドワード・クランクショー
Edowādo Kurankushō
Aliases:
William Edward Crankshaw
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1909-01-03 （Woodford, Essex, England）
- Died
- 1984-11-30 （Hawkhurst, Kent, England） age 75
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English, German, Russian
- Religion
- Nonconformist Protestant
- Residence History
- Woodford, Essex → Vienna, Austria → Moscow, USSR → Hawkhurst, Kent
Career
- Occupations
- writer, journalist, translator, commentator, soldier
- Active Years
- 1938-1984
- Affiliations
- The Times, The Observer
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop's Stortford College | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
Bishop's Stortford College
Country:
United Kingdom
Nonconformist public school
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny
1956 Non-fictionA detailed account of the Gestapo, the Secret State Police of Nazi Germany.
NazismSecret PoliceTyranny
Khrushchev's Russia
1959 Non-fictionAnalysis of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev.
Soviet UnionKhrushchevCold War
The Habsburgs
1971 Non-fictionOverview of the history of the House of Habsburg.
House of HabsburgAustrian EmpireEuropean History
Bibliography
- Joseph Conrad: Some Aspects of the Art of the Novel
- Vienna: The Image of a Culture in Decline
- Russia and Britain
- Russia and the Russians
- Russia by Daylight
- The Forsaken Idea: A Study of Viscount Milner
- Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny
- Russia Without Stalin
- Khrushchev's Russia
- The New Cold War: Moscow v. Pekin
- The Fall of the House of Habsburg
- Khrushchev: A Biography
- Maria Theresa
- Khrushchev Remembers
- The Habsburgs
- Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist
- The Shadow of the Winter Palace: The Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917
- Bismarck
- Putting Up With the Russians 1947-1984
- Nina Lessing
- What Glory?
- The Creedy Case
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- AnalyticalHistorical narrative
- Recurring Motifs
- Soviet politicsAustrian historyAuthoritarian regimes
Legacy
British writer and commentator known for works on Soviet affairs and the Habsburgs. Worked as a Soviet specialist for The Observer and reported on Khrushchev's secret denunciation of Stalin.
Trivia
- His younger brother Geoffrey Crankshaw was a noted critic of English music.
- Met Cambridge Five spy Guy Burgess in Moscow several times.