The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor (The Private Papers, 1937-1972)

Bloch, Michael

ISBN 10: 006016090X / ISBN 13: 9780060160906

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1988

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8vo, 326 pp.

Seller Inventory # 074698

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor (The Private Papers, 1937-1972)
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006016090X
• ISBN 13: 9780060160906
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Illus. with photos
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • British History

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Born in 1953, Michael Bloch read law at St John's College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar by Inner Temple. He worked for Maitre Suzanne Blum, the Paris lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and wrote six books about the couple. He edited the diaries of James Lees-Milne, the National Trust's rescuer of country houses, and wrote his biography. His other biographical subjects include Hitler's Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop, and Frederick Matthias Alexander, founder of the Alexander technique.