George VI's radio address to the British in September 1939, as World War II began, became the climax of the Oscar-winning film The King's Speech! and the result of the king’s many years of work with Australian native Lionel Logue, a specialist in speech disorders, a proponent of non-trivial methods of improving speech technique. Following “The King’s Speech!”, a New York Times bestseller, this long-awaited book tells what happened next, how the interaction developed George VI and Lionel Logue during the years of military trials until victory in 1945 and how their cooperation, deeply imbued with human warmth, created a special value - the support of the British people in the most difficult period of world history. The authors of this non-fiction book, based on letters, diaries and reminiscences by Mark Logue, grandson of an Australian speech therapist and curator of his archive, and Peter Conradi, writer and journalist for the London Sunday Times.