Annal:1981 Whitbread Book Award for Biography
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Results of the Whitbread Book Award in the year 1981. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Whitbread Book Award for Biography
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Biography books
- Biography authors.
- 1981 Whitbread-Biography winner
- Score: 10.31
There may be worse titles for a biography of Lord Montgomery of Alamein than The Full Monty, but none readily come to mind. At best it suggests a few laughs that most certainly aren’t to be found, and at worst a staggering insensitivity when the book’s central thesis is Montgomery’s confused and complex sexuality. Nigel Hamilton has already written an acclaimed three-volume biography of Monty, published in the 1980s, which reclaimed the honour and reputation of the British soldier that had been savaged by earlier generations of American historians, and now…
