A family divided by a feud gathers to celebrate a child's 10th birthday. As they assemble in London from France and Dorset, the unthinkable occurs, and two older members of the family fall passionately in love.

It was called the London Season, and for three centuries it had been a time of fashionable suppers and brilliant balls that introduced England's most aristocratic and eligible girls to society. Though by 1939 the stately gavottes and minuets had long since given way to waltzes and fox-trots, the cream of young womanhood still curtsied low before the Queen and then went out to dance the night away with the young men they would one day marry.But the Season of 1939 was different: it was to be the last. And like many a finale, it lives on in memory as a lovely, enchanted dream, all the more beautiful for the horror and destruction that would follow so soon.Based on a wealth of first-hand reminiscences, press clippings, and memorabilia, 1939: The Last Season of Peace is a fascinating portrait of this fairy tale about to end. Itcaptures the end of an era as it recreates a world whose inhabitants still believed in empire and tradition. It is a vivid picture of a generation suspended in a brief moment of sunlit summer glory, before the gathering storm of World War II swept it all away.

Eva Braun is one of history's most famous nonentities. She has been dismissed as a racist, feather-headed shop girl, and yet six decades after her death her name is still instantly recognizable. She left her convent school at the age of seventeen and metHitler a few months later. She became his mistress before she was twenty. How did unsophisticated little Frèaulein Braun, 23 years his junior, hold the most powerful man in Europe in an exclusive relationship that lasted from 1932 until their joint suicide? Were they really lovers, and what were the background influences and psychological tensions of the middle-class Catholic girl from Munich who shared his intimate life? How can her ordinariness and apparent decency be reconciled with an unshakeable loyalty to the monster she loved?--From publisher description.Traces the life of Hitler's mistress-turned-wife, from her initial relationship with the Fèuhrer as a teenage convent student and her rejection by top Nazi wives to her suicide alongside Hitler at the end of World War II.

Product Description: Join in the fun of fancy dress in this activity board book. Slip the figure into the acetate pocket to magically transform the boy or girl into any number of animals. The double-sided figure helps to combat gender stereotypes.

Product Description: Join in the fun of fancy dress in this activity board book. Slip the figure into the acetate pocket to magically transform the boy or girl ready for the party. The double-sided figure helps to combat gender stereotypes.

Product Description: Join in the fun of fancy dress in this activity board book. Slip the figure into the acetate pocket to magically transform the boy or girl ready to do any number of jobs. The double-sided figure helps to combat gender stereotypes.

Product Description: 416pages. in8. Broché.

Set within a girls' boarding school in the 1920s, this novel tells the story of petty treachery and deceits which culminate in violence and the realization of change. Central to the novel are three women from different generations - Henrietta, the head, Sylvia, a teacher, and Constance, a new girl.

Product Description: A story of a Polish exile and a deserted English woman who are brought together by loneliness, but then driven apart by memories. He yearns for the Poland that existed in his youth, while she tries desperately to draw him into her life, with a passion that becomes intense and remote from reality...read more

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Details the activities of the group of British intellectuals who met regularly between 1885 and 1920