The Windsor Years

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1980
Edition: Reprint

Description: 303 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: The Windsor Years tells a story without its equal in modern history. Here is the dramatic abdication crisis as well as the whole colorful cavalcade of Edward VIIIs life. We follow him from his childhood visits with Queen Victoria through his education at Oxford, his brilliant service as Prince of Wales, his accession to the throne in 1936, his wartime work as governor of the Bahamas, and his final years in France. Around him were some of the most notable figures of his times: Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Kaiser Wilhelm, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, and above all, Wallis Simpson - the woman who, because he loved her, was destined to shake the British empire to its very foundations. Interwoven with the text is a unique collection of photographs documenting not only "the romance of the century" but also all the history, pageantry, and changing fashions of seven decades.

ISBN: 0140055274