Alexander Larman: The Crown in Crisis [2020] hardback Condition:New commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph

commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front

and turn your own home into a dessert bar

she vies to succeed against her course mates with their discreet but inexhaustible streams of cultural capital and money

Though the dominance of the Blitzkrieg method was to be challenged in the latter part of the war

The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism

Alexander Larman: The Crown in Crisis [2020] hardback Condition:New commissioned Cecil Beaton to photographIn December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the Establishment, who were desperate to avoid an international embarrassment at a time when war seemed imminent. An influential coalition formed against him,