The inner lives of the top Nazis and their families, Hitler's famous mistress---ultimately his wife---comes to three-dimensional life in this penetrating and critically acclaimed biography.
She left her convent school at the age of seventeen and met Hitler a few months later. She became his mistress before age twenty. They remained in an exclusive sexual relationship from 1932 until their joint suicides at the end of the war. Hitler's chauffeur called her "the unhappiest woman in Germany." The Fuhrer humiliated her in public while the top Nazis' wives despised her. Yet Albert Speer...
The inner lives of the top Nazis and their families, Hitler's famous mistress---ultimately his wife---comes to three-dimensional life in this penet...
Newly-widowed Harriet Capel does not expect the remainder of her life to hold many surprises; she imagines it will involve little more than fretting over her children's difficulties with their various marriages and relationships, and looking after her grandchildren. But everything changes when she encounters Oliver Gaunt, her daughter-in-law's father. The physical attraction between them is powerful and instantaneous, but as their love affair gathers intensity and pace, so do its consequences for the family as a whole. In this enthralling story, two generations negotiate a dangerous tightrope...
Newly-widowed Harriet Capel does not expect the remainder of her life to hold many surprises; she imagines it will involve little more than fretting o...