Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore is a British writer. He trained as a barrister before becoming a journalist and then a non-fiction writer. His second book "Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man" was published in 2006 (by Viking in the UK: ISBN 0-670-91082-1, and by Harvard University Press in the US: ISBN 978-0-674-02439-7). One of his ancestors was evacuated from Dunkirk.[citation needed]
His previous book is Enigma: The Battle for the Code, the story of breaking the German Enigma machine code at Bletchley Park[1] during World War II (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000). His family owned Bletchley Park until they sold it to the British government in 1937.
His brother Simon Sebag Montefiore is also a writer, besides being an historian.
External links
- International Herald Tribune Review of Enigma
- Times article on Dunkirk
- Daily Telegraph review of Dunkirk
- Andrew Roberts review of Dunkirk in the New York Sun
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