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1939: The Last Season by Anne de Courcy
Category: History
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War. The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult ...Show more
1939: The Last Season by Anne de Courcy
Category: Biography
The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls and parties and sporting events. ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera (H/B) by Anne De Courcy
Category: Biography
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
Category: Biography
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
Category: Biography
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Debs at War by Anne De Courcy
Category: Biography
Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to cust ...Show more
Debs at War: 1939-1945 by Anne de Courcy
Category: Biography | Series: Women in History Ser.
An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most ...Show more
Debs at War : How Wartime Changed Their Lives 1939-1945 by Anne de Courcy
Category: Biography Memoir
Diana Mosley by Anne De Courcy
Category: Biography Memoir
Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom ...Show more
Diana Mosley by Anne De Courcy
Category: Biography Memoir
A fascinating and controversial life of Diana Mosley, wife of the British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, and friend to Adolf Hitler.Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For many, she was a cult; for others, anathema. In hundreds of hours of taped intervi ...Show more
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship - The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
Category: Biography
Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was also highly intelligent, reading widely and writing poetry. Of Nancy's many affairs the five included in this book are the ones with the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley an ...Show more
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY
Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. Born into a life of wealth and privilege, yet one in which she barely saw her parents, Nancy rebelled against expec ...Show more