Diana Mosley
Author | : Jan Dalley |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780571317370 |
ISBN-13 | : 0571317375 |
Rating | : 4/5 (375 Downloads) |
Download or read book Diana Mosley written by Jan Dalley and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of anti-semitism that stretched through the English aristocracy between the wars.