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Adrian Fort
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Adrian Fort was educated at Oxford where he is a Clarendon Fellow. He practised as a barrister and was involved in politics before pursuing a career in finance. He has published many articles on financial and economic subjects and broadcasts frequently on Radio. He won the inaugural Biographers' Club prize in 2001. He is married with two children and lives in Oxfordshire.

Adrian Fort's first book, a biography of Frederick Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, was published by Jonathan Cape in October 2003.

ARCHIBALD WAVELL: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE IMPERIAL SERVANT

CAPE (2 Oct 08)

The career of Archibald Wavell -- man of letters, Viceroy, Field-Marshal -- epitomises that of a generation of famous men whose education and upbringing equipped them for a future that was to prove an illusion. Wavell was born a few years before Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee, and died shortly after the end of the Second World War. He lived for less than seventy years, yet during that time the country in which he grew up, and which he was trained to serve, changed beyond recognition, undergoing a fundamental revision in the attitudes, expectations, prejudices and hopes of the British people. This will be the first full-length, single-volume biography in over 30 years.

PROF: THE LIFE OF FREDERICK LINDEMANN Pimlico paperback edition published 3 June 2004

CAPE (23 Oct 03)

Frederick Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, is one of the most influential yet least-known figures of the twentieth century. Born in 1886 into a wealthy family of German origin, he became Winston Churchill's scientific adviser and close friend and reached the very pinnacle of political, scientific and social life in Britain.

Lindemann - or "Prof" as he was widely known - was raised in Devon and educated in Berlin and Paris. He championed and befriended Einstein. During the First World War he repeatedly risked his own life - and saved many others - in demonstrating how to escape from aeroplane spin. And, between the wars, he established, almost from scratch, Oxford University's international reputation in physics.

During the 1930s Lindemann campaigned strenuously against appeasement and moved to the centre of policy-making when he joined the Cabinet. He was described by R. A. Butler as "that sharp-witted, sharp-tongued, pertinacious and more than slightly conspiratorial character who has long been Churchill's closest friend and confidant". As such, he advised on all the central issues of the war, including the U-boat threat, the bombing of Germany, the V-weapon peril and the creation of the atom bomb.

Lindemann's private life was a closed book. His arrogant wit and supreme confidence in his own judgement brought him many enemies and few friends. But no other scientist in history has achieved more political power. His remarkable contribution in both spheres remains unparalleled.

ISBN: 0 224 06317 0

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