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The mitford affair a novel6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Probing the torrid political climate in the lead-up to World War II and the ways that seemingly sensible people can be sucked into radical action, The Mitford Affair follows Nancy's valiant efforts to stop the Nazis from taking over Great Britain, and the complicated choices she must make between the personal and the political. When she overhears alarming conversations and uncovers disquieting documents, Nancy must make excruciating choices as Great Britain goes to war with Germany. As well, it asks us to think hard about the rifts in our families in an era when our own divisive politics threaten to pull us apart. ![]() Plunges readers into a world of glamorous, charismatic young British. The Mitford Affair illuminates the labyrinthine social and political milieu of pre-WW2 England and Germany and the lives of people whose loyalties were tested by competing political ideas. As the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious of her sisters' constant visits to Germany and the high-ranking fascist company they keep. Read The Mitford Affair A Novel by Marie Benedict available from Rakuten Kobo. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress. the next-dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters-each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than. ![]()
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