Amanda Foreman is the author of the international bestseller Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1999) which has been translated into thirteen languages and won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. The book inspired a documentary, a radio play starring Dame Judi Dench, and a film, The Duchess, released in 2008, starring Keira Knightly and Ralph Fiennes. She is currently a research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She is married with five children.
Amanda Foreman's magnificent book provides a completely fresh
perspective on the first great modern conflict. Weaving together a
vast panoply of people and events, it dramatically brings alive
this extraordinary period on British and American history.
*Antony Beevor*
It rolls along with the ragged grandeur of one of Ulysses S.
Grant's infantry battalions. If you've an appetite for serious
history, you'll be in hog-heaven.
*Spectator*
'A World on Fire is an achievement as enjoyable as it is
impressive. As in a great nineteenth-century novel, a teeming cast
propels this epic - the gallant and the craven, scoundrels and
lovers, diplomats and freebooters - some helplessly caught in the
gale, others with their hands firmly on the levers of power.
Charles Dickens appears in this book; had he been an historian he
might well have written it.'
*American Heritage, 1990-2007*
A World on Fire is a staggering achievement.
*Daily Express*
Here is an iridescent book; vivid like a rainbow but rather more
substantial...The book is like Gone With The Wind but with the true
history inserted, and even more importantly, it is a biography of
two people at an epic moment in their shared history. Anger,
resentment, sympathy, loyalty, all the emotions that characterise
Anglo-American relations today, can be traced back to this
period.
*Mail on Sunday*
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