Book description
Drawing on unique sources, Michael Bloch describes the career of the
Duke of Windsor during the Second World War. As a military liaison
officer in France during 1939-40, he issued warnings which, had they
been heeded, might have avoided the defeat of France; as Governor of the
Bahamas 1940-45, he succeeded in what was regarded as one of the most
difficult posts in the British Empire. But at the same time he and his
wife (to marry whom he had given up a throne) had a second war to
contend with - against King George VI and Queen Elizabeth who were
determined to treat them as outcasts. This book caused a furore on
publication, being the first work to give a detailed account of the
bitter relations between the ex-King and his family. Born in 1953,
Michael Bloch read law at St John's College, Cambridge, and was called
to the bar by Inner Temple. He worked for Maître Suzanne Blum, the Paris
lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and wrote six books about the
couple. He edited the diaries of James Lees-Milne, the National Trust's
rescuer of country houses, and wrote his biography. His other
biographical subjects include Hitler's Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop, and
Frederick Matthias Alexander, founder of the Alexander technique.
