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  • Operation Willi

    The Plot to Kidnap the Duke of Windsor, July 1940

    de Michael Bloch ...
    In this fascinating piece of historical detective work - the result of several years' research and the interrogation of numerous surviving witnesses - Michael Bloch has penetrated one of the great mysteries of the Second World War: the plot to bring the Duke of Windsor under German power on the eve of the Battle of Britain, a plot which the Duke himself is sometimes said to have given ... Leer más

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  • The Duchess of Windsor

    The Truth About the Royal Family's Greatest Scandal

    de Michael Bloch ...
    Royal scandal is nothing new. In 1936, the royal family was rocked by events that threatened its very existence. Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, Emperor of India, gave up his throne. A constitutional crisis ensued. The reason? He intended to marry Wallis Simpson - a divorcee.In The Duchess of Windsor, Michael Bloch tells her fascinating story. This ... Leer más

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  • The Reign and Abdication of Edward VIII

    de Michael Bloch ...
    Michael Bloch gives a new twist to the oft-told story of King Edward's short reign.Drawing on a decade-long study of the King's personality, and on privileged access to his papers, he sees the King's abdication partly as the result of a plot to get rid of him by men who mistrusted his modernity and popular touch, but also explainable by the fact that he did not really want to be king or fight for ... Leer más

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  • The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor

    de Michael Bloch ...
    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. ... Leer más

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  • The Duke of Windsor's War

    de Michael Bloch ...
    Drawing on unique sources, Michael Bloch describes the career of the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War.As a military liaison officer in France during 1939-40, he issued warnings which, had they been heeded, might have avoided the defeat of France;as Governor of the Bahamas 1940-45, he succeeded in what was regarded as one of the most difficult posts in the British Empire.But at the same ... Leer más

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  • Closet Queens

    Some 20th Century British Politicians

    de Michael Bloch ...
    Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era.As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and exposure meant ruin and disgrace, such men were obliged either to repress their sexual feelings or else lead double lives, indulging their tastes ... Leer más

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  • Wallis and Edward, Letters:1931-37

    The Intimate Correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor

    de Michael Bloch ...
    When Wallis & Edward was first published in 1986, weeks after the death of the Duchess of Windsor, it caused a sensation: this was the story the world had been waiting for. For the first time, the story of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII was revealed in their own words. Michael Bloch's edition of their intimate correspondence takes us from the moment they met in 1931 up to their marriage in ... Leer más

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  • F.M.: The Life Of Frederick Matthias Alexander

    Founder of the Alexander Technique

    de Michael Bloch ...
    The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder, Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), was an Australian actor who stumbled upon it in the 1890s after studying himself in mirrors to discover why he had lost his voice. He realised that most people ... Leer más

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  • Diaries, 1942-1954

    de Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne ...
    The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed ... Leer más

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  • Diaries, 1971-1983

    de James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch ...
    Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate of the eccentric Duke of Beaufort, meetings with many friends (including John Betjeman, Bruce ... Leer más

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  • Diaries, 1984-1997

    de James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch ...
    This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully ... Leer más

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  • Du « prince des bibliothécaires » au « modèle des archivistes »

    Lettres de Léopold Delisle à Charles de Beaurepaire (1851-1908)

    de Michaël Bloche, Françoise Vielliard, Vincent Maroteaux ...
    Series series Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire
    Léopold Delisle (1826-1910) et Charles de Beaurepaire (1828-1908), enfants du Cotentin et très attachés à leur terre natale, sont liés d’une profonde amitié depuis l’École des chartes. Ils figurent parmi les pionniers de l’érudition historique en France, qui connaît un essor sans précédent au XIXe siècle. La carrière du premier s’est déroulée à la Bibliothèque nationale (1852-1905), celle du ... Leer más

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