Michael Bloch

Michael Anthony Bloch (born 24 September 1953) is an author and historian.[1]

Educated at Portadown College and St John's College, Cambridge,[2][3] he was called to the bar from the Inner Temple in 1978 and in 1979 became an assistant to Maître Suzanne Blum, the Parisian lawyer of the Duchess of Windsor.[4]

Bloch's books include several about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, an authorized biography of James Lees-Milne, and a study of the Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe.[4]

Books

  • Michael Bloch, The Duke of Windsor's War (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982) ISBN 0-297-7794
  • Michael Bloch, Wallis and Edward Letters 1931-1937: the Intimate Correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Littlehampton Book Services, 1986) ISBN 978-0297788041
    • Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931–1937 (Summit Books, 1986) ISBN 0-671-61209-3
  • Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor (London: Bantam Books, 1988) ISBN 0-593-01667-X
  • Michael Bloch, The Reign and Abdication of King Edward VIII (1991)
  • Michael Bloch, The Duchess of Windsor (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996), ISBN 978-0297835905
  • Michael Bloch, F.M.: The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander: Founder of the Alexander Technique (2004)
  • James Lees-Milne, ed. Michael Bloch, The Milk of Paradise: Diaries 1993-1997 (London: John Murray, new edition 2006) ISBN 978-0719565816
  • James Lees-Milne, ed. Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne Diaries, 1942-1954 (London: John Murray, 2007) ISBN 978-0719566813
  • James Lees-Milne, ed. Michael Bloch, Diaries 1971-1983 (London: John Murray, 2008
  • Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne (London: John Murray, 2010) ISBN 978-0719565502
  • Michael Bloch, Jeremy Thorpe (Abacus Books, 2016)
  • Michael Bloch, Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians (2016), with foreword by Matthew Parris

Notes

  1. ↑ "Michael Bloch". Johnson & Alcock. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Debrett’s People of Today 2017.
  3. ↑ The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991 (Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 130
  4. 1 2 JEREMY THORPE by Michael Bloch at littlebrown.co.uk, accessed 25 February 2018
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