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The Duke of Windsor's War

Author : Michael Bloch
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1405517085
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Duke of Windsor's War written by Michael Bloch and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on unique sources, Michael Bloch describes the career of the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War.As a military liaison officer in France during 1939-40, he issued warnings which, had they been heeded, might have avoided the defeat of France;as Governor of the Bahamas 1940-45, he succeeded in what was regarded as one of the most difficult posts in the British Empire.But at the same time he and his wife (to marry whom he had given up a throne) had a second war to contend with - against King George VI and Queen Elizabeth who were determined to treat them as outcasts.This book caused a furore on publication, being the first work to give a detailed account of the bitter relations between the ex-King and his family.

The Crown in Crisis

Author : Alexander Larman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250274850
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Crown in Crisis written by Alexander Larman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling and definitive account of the Abdication Crisis of 1936 On December 10, 1936, King Edward VIII brought a great international drama to a close when he abdicated, renouncing the throne of the United Kingdom for himself and his heirs. The reason he gave when addressing his subjects was that he could not fulfill his duties without the woman he loved—the notorious American divorcee Wallis Simpson—by his side. His actions scandalized the establishment, who were desperate to avoid an international embarrassment at a time when war seemed imminent. That the King was rumored to have Nazi sympathies only strengthened their determination that he should be forced off the throne, by any means necessary. Alexander Larman’s The Crown in Crisis will treat readers to a new, thrilling view of this legendary story. Informed by revelatory archival material never-before-seen, as well as by interviews with many of Edward’s and Wallis’s close friends, Larman creates an hour-by-hour, day-by-day suspenseful narrative that brings readers up to the point where the microphone is turned on and the king speaks to his subjects. As well as focusing on King Edward and Mrs. Simpson, Larman looks closely at the roles played by those that stood against him: Prime minister Stanley Baldwin, his private secretary Alec Hardinge, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang. Larman also takes the full measure of those who supported him: the great politician Winston Churchill, Machiavellian newspaper owner Lord Beaverbrook, and the brilliant lawyer Walter Monckton. For the first time in a book about the abdication, readers will read an in-depth account of the assassination attempt on Edward’s life and its consequences, a first-person chronicle of Wallis Simpson’s scandalous divorce proceedings, information from the Royal Archives about the government’s worries about Edward’s relationship with Nazi high-command Ribbentrop and a boots-on-the-ground view of how the British people saw Edward as they watched the drama unfold. You won’t be able to put down The Crown in Crisis, a full panorama of the people and the times surrounding Edward and the woman he loved.

17 Carnations

Author : Andrew Morton
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455527092
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book 17 Carnations written by Andrew Morton and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of New York Times bestseller MEGHAN comes a scandalous historical drama about the secrets hidden between the royal family, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II. Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife, Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the duke's relations with Hitler. From the alleged affair between Simpson and the German foreign minister to the discovery of top secret correspondence about the man dubbed "the traitor king" and the Nazi high command, this is a saga of intrigue, betrayal, and deception suffused with a heady aroma of sex and suspicion. For the first time, Morton reveals the full story behind the cover-up of those damning letters and diagrams: the daring heist ordered by King George VI, the smooth duplicity of a Soviet spy as well as the bitter rows and recriminations among the British and American diplomats, politicians, and academics. Drawing on FBI documents, exclusive pictures, and material from the German, Russian, and British royal archives, as well as the personal correspondence of Churchill, Eisenhower, and the Windsors themselves, 17 CARNATIONS is a dazzling historical drama, full of adventure, intrigue, and startling revelations, written by a master of the genre.

Hidden Agenda

Author : Martin Allen
Publisher : M. Evans
ISBN 13 : 1461663032
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Agenda written by Martin Allen and published by M. Evans. This book was released on 2002-10-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Duke of Windsor betray the allies and did his war time activity amount to treason? This book,the result of the author's research will seek to answer these questions.

British Summer Time Begins

Author : Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1408710544
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book British Summer Time Begins written by Ysenda Maxtone Graham and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who were there. Through this prism, it paints a revealing portrait of twentieth-century Britain in summertime: how we were, how families functioned, what houses and gardens and streets were like, what journeys were like, and what people did all day in their free time. It explores their expectations, hopes, fears and habits, the rules or lack of rules under which they lived, their happiness and sadness, their sense of being treasured or neglected - all within living memory, from pre-war summers to the late 1970s. Ysenda takes us back to the long stretch of time from the last days of June till the early days of September - those months when the term-time self was cast off and you could become the person you really were, and you had (if you were lucky) enough hours in the endless succession of days to become good at the things that would later define your adulthood. The 'showpiece' part of the summer holidays was 'the summer holiday', when families took off to the seaside, or to grandparents' houses teeming with cousins, or on early package holidays to France or Spain, siblings wedged into the back of small cars, roof-racks clattering, mothers preparing picnics. British Summer Time Begins is as much about the long weeks either side of that holiday as the trip itself: the weeks when nothing much officially happened, boredom often lurked nearby, and you vanished for hours on end, nobody much knowing or even caring where you were. Could it be that those unscheduled days were actually the most important and formative of your life? From the author of the beloved Terms & Conditions, British Summer Time Begins is a delightful, nostalgic and joyous celebration of summers.

The Windsors at War

Author : Alexander Larman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474623964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book The Windsors at War written by Alexander Larman and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI. Meanwhile, as the now-Duke of Windsor awaited the decree that would allow him to marry his mistress Wallis Simpson, he took an increasing interest in the expansionist plans of the Fuhrer of Germany. The Windsors at War tells the story of the turbulent and seismic decade in between 1937 and 1947, including the bombing of Buckingham Palace in May 1940, the Duke of Windsor's ill-advised visit to Germany in October 1937 and the death of the Duke of Kent in a plane crash in August 1942. It answers a simple question: how did this squabbling, dysfunctional family manage to put their differences aside and unite to help win the greatest conflict of their lifetimes?

War of the Windsors

Author : Lynn Picknett
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book War of the Windsors written by Lynn Picknett and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2002 marked the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reign of any monarch of the House of Windsor. Yet the future of the monarchy is by no means certain, not simply due to today's more egalitarian era, but also because of fundamental weaknesses within the royal house itself. While many of its failings are well known, hidden from public scrutiny are more disturbing activities for which the royals have never been held to account. This controversial work reveals the truth behind Britain's modern monarchy. ruling family the House of Mountbatten; the real untold story of the abdication of Edward VIII; the existence of a shadowy cabal committed to protecting the royal image; and the truth behind notorious spy Anthony Blunt's connections to the Royal Family. It reveals the unconstitutional behaviour of the House of Windsor; the cover-up of major financial scandals connected with George VI and other kings; the routine use of euthanasia to dispatch those who inconveniently linger - and new evidence concerning the deaths of Dodi Fayed and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Princes at War

Author : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408845091
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Princes at War written by Deborah Cadbury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era – the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to marry divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson; Prince Henry preferred the sporting life of a country squire; the glamorous and hedonistic Prince George, Duke of Kent, was considered a wild card; and stammering George VI felt himself woefully unprepared for the demanding role of King. As Hitler's Third Reich tore up the boundaries of Europe and Britain braced itself for war, the new king struggled to manage internal divisions within the royal family. Drawing on many new sources including from the Royal Archives, Princes at War goes behind the palace doors to tell the thrilling drama of Britain at war.

The Duke of Windsor's War

Author : Michael Bloch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Duke of Windsor's War written by Michael Bloch and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Operation Willi

Author : Michael Bloch
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405517093
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Operation Willi written by Michael Bloch and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating piece of historical detective work - the result of several years' research and the interrogation of numerous surviving witnesses - Michael Bloch has penetrated one of the great mysteries of the Second World War: the plot to bring the Duke of Windsor under German power on the eve of the Battle of Britain, a plot which the Duke himself is sometimes said to have given encouragement. A work of historical sleuthing in the classic tradition, combining powerful writing with scrupulous scholarship.

A King's Story

Author : Edward Duke of Windsor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book A King's Story written by Edward Duke of Windsor and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the Duke of Windsor's early youth at Sandringham, his years at Naval School on the Isle of Wight, at Magdalen College, Oxford, in the army in World War I, and his tours of Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand. After becoming king on the death of his father, he defied the wishes of Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, when he insisted on marrying Wallis Simpson. The book features details of his abdication and his marriage.

Go-Betweens for Hitler

Author : Karina Urbach
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191008672
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Go-Betweens for Hitler written by Karina Urbach and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential contacts and relations across Europe — especially in Britain, where their contacts included the press baron and Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere and the future King Edward VIII. Using previously unexplored sources from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and the USA, Karina Urbach unravels the story of top-level go-betweens such as the Duke of Coburg, grandson of Queen Victoria, and the seductive Stephanie von Hohenlohe, who rose from a life of poverty in Vienna to become a princess and an intimate of Adolf Hitler. As Urbach shows, Coburg and other senior aristocrats were tasked with some of Germany's most secret foreign policy missions from the First World War onwards, culminating in their role as Hitler's trusted go-betweens, as he readied Germany for conflict during the 1930s — and later, in the Second World War. Tracing what became of these high-level go-betweens in the years after the Nazi collapse in 1945 — from prominent media careers to sunny retirements in Marbella — the book concludes with an assessment of their overall significance in the foreign policy of the Third Reich.

A Conspiracy of Crowns

Author : Alfred de Marigny
Publisher : Garrett County Press
ISBN 13 : 1939430186
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book A Conspiracy of Crowns written by Alfred de Marigny and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1943 the scorched and bloody body of multi-millionaire businessman, Sir Harry Oakes, was found in a partly burned bed in his home in the Bahamas. He had died of wounds to the head caused by a weapon never found or clearly identified. Four small, identical holes in a pattern almost square had penetrated the mastoid bone above his left ear. Within forty-eight hours, after the most cursory of investigations, Oakes' son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, was arrested and charged with the murder. The trial lasted thirty-two days. Once it was over, even though de Marigny was acquitted, his life lay in ruins. The authorities in Nassau had advised all British and friendly territories that de Marigny was to be regarded as a murderer at large, and it was four years before he could get a visa to enter the United States, where he finally made his home. Now, for the first time, de Marigny tells his own story, revealing what really happened in the Bahamas in July 1943 and in the months that followed. Even as war engulfed the globe, Nassau was a magnet for society's rich and spoiled, presided over by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It is against this extraordinary background of wealth and privilege that the story unfolds, a complex tale of business intrigue, broken promises and acts of betrayal; of currency smuggling and conduct close to treason, and of one man's untiring efforts to clear his name.

The Duchess of Windsor

Author : Diana Mosley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903933404
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Duchess of Windsor written by Diana Mosley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Mosley is the last intimate friend of the Duchess of Windsor still alive. In this revised and updated biography, she addresses the latest allegations of secret service reports about the Windsors' conduct during the war and the abdication. A new chapter has been added.

The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor

Author : Michael Bloch
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349001081
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor written by Michael Bloch and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant and authoritative work, based on their private correspondence and papers, Michael Bloch describes the feud which developed between the Duke of Windsor and the British royal establishment after the Abdication, the humiliations which were suffered by the ex-King and his wife, and the plots to ensure that they remained in exile.

A King's Story

Author : Edward Duke of Windsor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A King's Story written by Edward Duke of Windsor and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Manner of Man Is This?

Author : Orville A Turnquest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789769597617
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book What Manner of Man Is This? written by Orville A Turnquest and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsparingly examines the lives, the record and the actions of the Duke of Windsor, one of the most intriguing and controversial personalities in modern history, and The Duchess, for whom he abdicated the throne as King of England, during their stay in The Bahamas when the Duke served as Royal Governor of this island nation.