Publish Date |
November 08, 2022 |
Category |
Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century |
Price |
$26.95 |
ISBN: 9781639363872
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: November 08, 2022
“This readable, damning synthesis confirms that Edward’s abdication was the free world’s good fortune.‘It’s a shame he is no longer king,’ Goebbels wrote in his diary. ‘With him we would have entered into an alliance.’”"Meticulously researched.""Entertaining, convincing, timely. Urgent reading on the royals.""Wow! Congratulations. Andrew Lownie done it again.”“Compelling and conclusive. Wallis Simpson performed a great service to the Windsors by removing Edward VIII from the throne. As Andrew Lownie definitively proves, he was totally unfit to be king and his willingness to be Hitler’s satrap would have finished the monarchy.”"Darkly compelling. Hundreds of eye-popping details. Gripping though it is, this is an unrelentingly damning portrait of the Windsors.”"Briskly written and compulsively readable. Does Andrew Lownie persuade me that it is worth telling the story again, and that he has made out the case for his unforgiving title? The answer is an unambiguous yes.”"Andrew Lownie sets out to revise the revisionists, and he does so convincingly. It is impossible not to be convinced by the evidence Lownie produces. Lownie reveals Edward not as a dupe of the Nazis, but an active and culpable collaborator. The list of individuals interviewed and archives consulted is formidable. The more impressive then, that this is a wonderfully readable and succinct story [with] riveting detail about the sheer awfulness, the anomie of the Windsors' postwar life.”"Lownie has uncovered an array of new sources regarding the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and he exhibits a sovereign command of the existing biographies. Tackling the most sensitive subjects—the Duke and Duchess’ sexuality, their pro-Nazi views, their problematic behavior during the war, and the complicated nature of their relationship—Lownie has painted the most convincing portrait of the couple to date. The results are fascinating.”“Lownie gathers convincing evidence of Edward’s collaboration with Germany and amasses a wealth of new material, including intimate details about the Duchess’s affair with American socialite James Donahue. Royal watchers will be riveted.”