About this title: The 1.3 million-copy New York Times bestseller entirely revised and filled with riveting, recently declassified information First published in 1988, this spellbinding biography was the first to expose the secret life of Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman who captured a king, Britain's Edward VIII. From the duchess's first marriage to a bisexual ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780070288010ISBN:0070288011
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Nice hard cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, small mark on side edge, light yellowing to pages, stk #2053r9. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 482 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine. SOFTCOVER. MMPB. Very Nice Condition copy. Some spine creases. All pages are present, clean and un-creased. Cover has no tears. No underlining, highlighting, tears, stamps, bookplates, remainder marks, price clips, etc. Not an Ex-library copy. I ship International orders by Air Mail. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Putnam Berkley
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9781557732279ISBN:1557732272
Description: Good. No Jacket. Spine Creased, Corner Crease First Page/Back Cover, Sticker/Skin Removed Front Cover, Interior Unmarked, Good Copy. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Charter Books, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9781557732279ISBN:1557732272
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Good copy with some light general wear. some very light edge rubbing and some creases on spine. pages clean and unmarked. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Jove Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9781557732279ISBN:1557732272
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Book shop stamp in back. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780070288010ISBN:0070288011
Description: Very Good. Hardback with D/J. Thanks for looking at our books we ship fast and we guarantee all books we sell. binding tight. Some cover wear. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Jove Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9781557732279ISBN:1557732272
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. mmp 19b4, shelf wear to cover read more
"I have been interested in the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their life stories for many years, and as such I have read many books on this subject, including transcripts of their letters to each other and others. Theirs is an intriguing story and there are many facets to their relationship, both good and bad. To date, most books that I have read have been reasonably balanced, telling their story in a dispassionate and factual manner so that we can glimpse for ourselves into their characters and their lives. This book, however, fails completely in this respect. It adopts a very aggressive and negative approach from the start and seems to have been written with the specific aim of painting the Duchess in a bad light. In every situation when one could look at an event from two equally valid perspectives, Higham seizes the negative perspective and then hammers home his unfavourable opinion. In the end, I found his style so aggressively negative that I gave up with this book. Like many others, I have mixed thoughts about the Duchess, and because I was not 'a close friend of either couple, I accept that I will never know their innermost thoughts. However, books purporting to shed some light upon them should present the facts in a a clear, factual and unbiased manner so that the reader can form their own opinion. This book completely fails to do this. It is therefore not an enjoyable read and I cannot recommend it to others."
"I found this book in the laundry room of my apartment complex. I didn't really expect much out of it-just some good gossipy stories-but I ended up enjoying it quite a bit."
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