The War Memoirs Of Hrh Wallis Duchess Of Windsor - Hardcover

Kate Auspitz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670069280 ISBN 13: 9780670069286

Publisher: Penguin Canada, 2010

Synopsis

She was the first person to be named Woman of the Year by Time magazine, and yet Wallis Simpson remains one of the most reviled women in history. The social climbing divorcee is remembered as a snob and voluptuary who came close to destroying the British monarchy. But could she have been the pawn of Allied statesmen determined to remove a Nazi sympathiser from the throne? This memoire, found in her former Paris home, is said to have been written in the Duchess' own hand. And although the Duchess is a highly unreliable narrator, Kate Auspitz, an American historian, is a meticulous scholar, supplying pages of endnotes that ground the story firmly in published recollections of the major figures of the time. The plot rests on little-known historical details that make Wallis's role in the events entirely plausible.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670069280
• ISBN 13: 9780670069286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1