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Chargement... Jessica Mitford: Churchill's Rebelpar Meredith Whitford
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book takes the reader into the life of the interesting, amusing, sometimes contradictory Jessica Mitford and her family. With splendid research and fine attention to detail the author has managed to make this book feel more like an afternoon spent sitting in an attic going through a trunk of old letters than a non-fiction read. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an entertaining and enlightening look into the life of Jessica Mitford, but I must caution that this book will open up new avenues of exploration, or at least it did for me. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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'Churchill's Rebels' is a heart-breaking story of two people madly in love and in open rebellion against their up-bringing and a way of life. Esmond Romilly was the nephew of Winston Churchill, a rebel against his family and a public school who left England to fight for the rebels in the Spanish Civil War. Jessica Mitford, was one of the notorious Mitford girls - always known as Decca - and grew tup in a life of Downton Abbey aristocratic privilege. In 1937, when Esmond was 18 and Jessica 19 they met and fell madly in love and, scandalously, ran away together to the Communist Front in Spain. After three months of family opposition, they were finally married. With war ever approaching, Esmond trained to fly and was killed in active service with Bomber Command. They had only had four brief, tempestuous and loving years together. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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