Publication Day Desk

Congratulations to Terry whose brilliant debut non-fiction book is published today. Here’s the desk where she wrote it.

Daunt Books Marylebone hosted a launch on Tuesday where Terry pointed out the relevance today of her investigation of WW2 ‘political warfare’. Describing her visit to the back room of the Sugar Loaf Hotel in Dunstable where, in September 1939, the secret group first gathered to set up the propaganda department that would operate in a ‘hush hush village’ in Bedfordshire (where everyone would disagree and fall out with each other, as well as doing important work to win the war), Terry writes in the book: “It was only a few days since Boris Johnson had resigned as prime minister and I could not escape the sense that, even at a time of huge international crises, politicians continued to feud, to lie and to accuse one another of lying, and to live double lives in public and private. Politicians, journalists, and government officials were not so different during the Second World War; the difference is that now we can learn, far more quickly and with less secrecy and deference, what is going on.” Let’s hope so! Insightful books like this can help!