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The Windsors at War

De: Alexander Larman
Narrado por: Sophie Roberts
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The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler—and each other.

At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians who barely thought him up to the job. Meanwhile, as the now-Duke of Windsor awaited the decree that would allow him to marry his mistress Wallis Simpson, he took an increased interest in the expansionist plans of Adolf Hitler. He may even have gone so far as to betray his country in the process. And as double agents and Nazi spies thronged the corridors of Buckingham Palace, the only man the King could trust was his Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. But they faced a formidable, even unbeatable, adversary: his own brother.

The Windsors at War tells the never-before-told story of World War Two in Britain and America with a fresh focus on the royal family, their conflicted relationships, and the events that rocked the international press. How did this squabbling, dysfunctional family manage to put their differences aside and unite to help win the greatest conflict of their lifetimes? Alexander Larman, author of The Crown in Crisis, now chronicles the Windsor family at war with Germany—and each other.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Alexander Larman (P)2023 Macmillan Audio

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“Alexander Larman’s The Windsors at War is genuinely revealing, politically insightful, scrupulously researched, and has the narrative pace of a champion thoroughbred. It is also an eloquent study of two royal brothers, and of duty and betrayal.”—Tina Brown, New York Times bestselling author of The Diana Chronicles and The Palace Papers

“The definitive version of how the Royal Family behaved in World War II, by turns fast-paced and furious. I couldn’t put it down, except for occasional gasps of incredulity. Larman combines forensic investigative skills with some beautiful prose as he lays out in grim, unremitting detail how the Windsors wavered at critical moments in the war. What a story this is, and what a family.”—Anne Sebba, New York Times bestselling author of That Woman, Les Parisiennes, and Ethel Rosenberg.

“Alexander Larman’s masterful follow-up to The Crown in Crisis mixes thrilling action scenes, deeply researched political skulduggery, and intricate character studies of everyone from King George VI to his brother and nemesis, the Duke of Windsor, to fascinating and compulsively readable effect.”—Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Powers and Thrones and The Hollow Crown

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