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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
Scenes from the turbulent life of the rich, glamorous and beautiful Nancy Cunard
1939: The Last Season
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young …
Diana Mosley
Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, and set herself up as …
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
A delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton …
Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
The author of The English in Love provides a fascinating, candid look at the life of the controversial British aristocrat whose political beliefs and friendship with Adolf Hitler …
Debs at War
An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the WarPre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say …
Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944
In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the …
Fishing Fleet
The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands. Perfect for fans of SINGLED OUT - a great book club option.
Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944
In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the …
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the …
Husband Hunters
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in …