Nicholas Rankin

Nicholas Rankin (born 1950) is a British writer and broadcaster.

Biography

Rankin was born in Yorkshire, England, but grew up in Kenya. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He has lived and worked in Bolivia and Catalonia, Spain.

He worked for the BBC World Service for 20 years. He was Chief Producer, Arts, at the BBC World Service, when his eight-part series on ecology and evolution, A Green History of the Planet, won two UN awards.[1][2]

He currently works as a freelance writer and broadcaster and lives in London with his wife, the novelist Maggie Gee. He has one daughter, Rosa.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.[3]

Bibliography
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Books
  • Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson. London, Faber and Faber, 1987. ISBN 978-0-571-13808-1
  • Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent. London: Faber and Faber, 2003. ISBN 978-0-571-20563-9
  • Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945. Faber and Faber. 2008. ISBN 978-0-571-22195-0.
  • Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII. London: Faber and Faber, 2011. ISBN 978-0-571-25062-2
  • Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler. London: Faber and Faber. 2017. ISBN 978-0-571-30770-8.

Critical studies and reviews of Rankin's work
Churchill's wizards
Ian Fleming's commandos
Telegram from Guernica
gollark: Legal reminder to potatOS users: For users who are citizens of the European Union, we will now be requesting permission before initiating organ harvesting.
gollark: It's in the weird position of "sort of public but hard to access".
gollark: POST https://osmarks.tk/wsthing/report, it accepts JSON; you can send a `report` string, an array of strings `flags`, a string code sample `code`, and an object of arbitrary metadata stuff `host`.
gollark: How do you plan to break the trilaterating sniffer thing anyway?
gollark: Er, sure, I'll pull up the incident report system docs.

References
  1. Author page at Faber & Faber website
  2. "Nicholas Rankin" (PDF). Mershon Center for International Security Studies. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  3. "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.


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