Adrian Phillips

The King Who Had to Go: Edward VLLL, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The untold story of the hidden political machinations behind the handling of the royal abdication crisis of 1936.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9781785900259
• ISBN-10: 1785900250
• Artikelnr.: 45255040

Autorenporträt

Adrian Phillips: Adrian Phillips worked as an investment analyst in London and Frankfurt r twenty-five years before taking a postgraduate Masters in modern history at Birmingham University, specialising on the policy machinery at 10, Downing Street during the 1930s.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Prologue
HIDDEN SCANDAL
Chapter 1: The Boy Will Ruin Himself
Chapter 2: The Prime Minister and the Super-Civil Servant
Chapter 3: Almost Impossible to Appeal to Reason
Chapter 4: A Job Iis Assigned to the Prime Minister
HIDDEN CRISIS
Chapter 5: Provoking an Outburst
Chapter 6: A Real Jolt
Chapter 7: Queen or Nothing
Chapter 8: The Underworld Gangster Element
Chapter 9: The Battle for the Throne
PUBLIC CRISIS
Chapter 10: A Fireside Chat
Chapter 11: Obsessed to Get Away
Chapter 12: A Pistol at His Head
Chapter 13: My First Blunder
Chapter 14: The Long and Sinister Shadow
Chapter 15: Sunday Morning at Hendon Aerodrome
Chapter 16: A Microcosm of the Cabinet
OVER THE EDGE
Chapter 17: Rather a Facer
Chapter 18: Mission to a Madhouse
Chapter 19: Beyond Recovery
Chapter 20: Lying Like a Gentleman
Chapter 21: A Court of Her Own
Chapter 22: Plenty of People Ready to Knock Her on the Head
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Endnotes