Unity Mitford: A Quest 1857993705

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Unity Mitford A Quest Now with new Foreword

UNtry Velrynle MIrroRo and sensation were made for each other. Brought up in a family as notorious as it was glamorously talented, Unity struck out into the British Union of Fascists under Sir Oswald Mosley. In Germany she became the most star-struck of Nazis. Bewitching Hitler, she charmed her way to the inmost circle of the Ftihrer's life and established intimate friendships with many of the era's most prominent Nazis. Yet when faced with the. outbreak of war between her native England and her adopted Germany, she attempted to shoot herself and was ordered home by Hitler himself. Drawing upon interviews from leading Nazis, Hungarian aristocrats, Black Shirts and others who either loved or hated her, this is a quest for the facts behind the fagade of Unity Mitford's astonishing life story 'Mr

Pryce-Jones has performed a useful historical task in his search for the Mitford behaved as she did...the social scene in which this

reasons why Unity

drama took place is...bizarre, like a burned out fairground.' Rebecca 'S7est, Sunday

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f12.99 in UK only Cover illustration: Unity on the Hesselberg Cover design: Andrea Purdie