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Giles MacDonogh

ジルズ・マクドノー

Jiruzu Makudonō

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1955
Nationality
British
Languages
English, German
Residence History
London

Career

Occupations
journalist, historian, translator
Active Years
1987-2018
Affiliations
Financial Times, The Times
Nominations
André Simon Award shortlist

Education

City of London School
History
Country: United Kingdom
Balliol College, Oxford
Modern History
Country: United Kingdom
Read modern history
École pratique des hautes études
Historical research
Country: France
Historical research in Paris

Awards

Glenfiddich Special Award
1988
Work: A Palate in Revolution
Organization: Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards
Result: won

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

After the Reich

2007 History

From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift

German historyAllied occupation

1938: Hitler’s Gamble

2009 History

1938 events including Munich Agreement

Nazi Germany

Frederick the Great

1999 Biography

Life of Frederick the Great

PrussiaMilitary history

Bibliography

  • A Palate in Revolution
  • A Good German
  • Brillat-Savarin: The Judge and His Stomach
  • Syrah, Grenach and Mourvèdre
  • The Wine and Food of Austria
  • Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea
  • Berlin: A Portrait of Its History, Politics, Architecture, and Society
  • Austria: New Wines from the Old World
  • Frederick the Great
  • The Last Kaiser: William the Impetuous
  • Portuguese Table Wines
  • After the Reich
  • 1938: Hitler's Gamble
  • The Great Battles
  • On Germany

Translations by Author

  • The Hitler Book (Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl)
  • A Garden of Eden in Hell (Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki)
  • Wein/Wine Genesis (Karl Mayer et al.)
  • Testicles (Blandine Vié)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Detailed source-basedJudicious writing
Recurring Motifs
Central European historyGastronomyWine

Legacy

British scholar of German history in the front rank