Larman Alexander The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication 9781250274847

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Автор: Larman Alexander
Название: The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication
ISBN: 9781250274847
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1250274842
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 352
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 19.01.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 244 x 168 x 33
Поставляется из: США
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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 Larmans 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 Edwards and Walliss 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 Edwards life and its consequences, a first-person chronicle of Wallis Simpsons scandalous divorce proceedings, information from the Royal Archives about the governments worries about Edwards 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 wont 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.

The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication, Larman Alexander