Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VIII, and cost him his throne. Until Charles Higham's 1.3 million-copy bestseller, much of her life was a glamorous mystery. Now, fifteen years later, major new documentary evidence, classified at the time, makes for a book far more sensational than the original bestseller. Drawing from long-suppressed archives in France, England, and the United States, Higham has uncovered the duchess's passionate affair with a top-ranking political figure, the duke's romantic involvement with a male equerry, the secret radio broadcasts the couple made to Hitler, and the blackmail plot in Paris that almost brought them - and the British royal family - to ruin.

The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life

Biographies & Memoirs

HIGHAM, Charles

Community & Culture

McGraw=Hill

Offers a controversial portrait of the debonair actor who inwardly struggled with his homosexuality, detailing his private life and distinguished film career, as well as his world War II anti-Nazi stance

Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart

Moseley, Roy

Arts & Literature

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Research report on Phanom Di Burial Mound, archeological site in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand.

Khok Phanom Di: Prehistoric Adaptation to the World's Richest Habitat (Case Studies in Archaeology)

History

Rachanie Thosarat

Asia

Harcourt College Pub.

Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.

The celluloid muse: Hollywood directors speak

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Angus&Robertson

Physical description; 416 p., [16] p. of plates ; 23 cm. Subjects; Flynn, Errol 1909-1959. Motion picture actors and actresses - United States - Biography.

Errol Flynn: The Untold Story

DOUBLEDAY COMPANY

Hollywood cameramen: Sources of light (Cinema one series, 14)

Indiana University Press

Hollywood Cameramen: Sources of Light.

Indiana Univ. Press

The Merchant of Dreams: A Biography of Louis B. Mayer

Pan/Macmillan

Howard Hughes: The Secret Life

SIDGWICK JACKSON

The romance of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor has been called the greatest love story of the twentieth century. However with the first edition of this biography in 1988, highly acclaimed author Charles Higham used explosive secret intelligence files to reveal a far darker side to their forty-year relationship. Now the author has re-visited and updated his international bestseller, resulting in a fascinating, and at times shocking expose of Wallis Simpson and our own royal family. New and disturbing revelations have come to light, adding to the now classic story of an illegitimate child from Baltimore who rose to become the mistress of the king of England and brought about his abdication. Although Wallis gained control of the Monarch through sexual techniques learned in China, she risked losing everything through a reckless and sustained affair with a prominent public figure. Fascinating revelations include newly released FBI files that demonstrate as no other source has done, the extent of the Duchess's espionage activities and how she conspired against Britain in the interest of Hitler. This is an intimate and extraordinary account of the woman who very nearly became the Queen of England.

Mrs. Simpson

Sidgwick Jackson Ltd

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