The Secret Royals
Book description
A Daily Mail Book of the Year and a The Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2021
'Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.' Ben Macintyre, The Times
'A fascinating history of royal espionage.' Sunday Times
'Excellent... Compelling' Guardian
For the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between…
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1 author picked The Secret Royals as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The tagline for this book is Spying and Crown from Victoria to Diana. It is a massive book, the fruit of in-depth research, and opens up a fascinating field of enquiry. It details how the secret services grew out of attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and reveals how the pro-Nazi sympathies of Edward Vlll and his abdication triggered a massive security alert. Most intriguing of all is the story of how King George Vl came to cooperate with SOE in a massive deception in the run-up to D-Day.
From Hilary's list on the secret world of plot and counter plot in WWll.
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