King’s War: a commoner, the Crown and Britain’s greatest struggle. Mark Logue and Peter Conradi. 2018.

The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of more than a decade of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between the two men did not end there. Far from it: in the years that followed, Logue was to play an even more important role at the monarch's side.

The King's War follows this relationship through the dark days of Dunkirk and the Blitz and the heroism of D-Day to victory in

1945 - and beyond. Drawing on exclusive material from the Logue Archive, The King's War charts the King's transformation from a hesitant, stammering figure into the father of Britain and of the Empire.

The result is a fascinating portrait of two men and their families - the Windsors and the Logues

- as they together faced up to the greatest challenge in Britain's history.