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HITLERS GIRL - LAUREN YOUNG KARTONIERT (TB)

A timely  riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s
Britain  revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British
democracy?using the past as a road map to navigate the complexities of today's turn toward
authoritarianism. Hitler's Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how  in the 1930s 
authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on
recently declassified intelligence files  Lauren Young details the pervasiveness of Nazi
sympathies among the British aristocracy  as significant factions of the upper class
methodically pursued an actively pro-German agenda. She reveals how these aristocrats formed a
murky Fifth Column to Nazi Germany  which depended on the complacence and complicity of the
English to topple its proud and long-standing democratic tradition?and very nearly succeeded.
As she highlights the parallels to our similarly treacherous time  Young exposes the
involvement of secret organizations like the Right Club  which counted the Duke of Wellington
among its influential members  the Cliveden Set  which ran a shadow foreign policy in support
of Hitler  and the shocking four-year affair between socialite Unity Mitford and Adolf Hitler.
Eye-opening and instructive  Hitler's Girl re-evaluates 1930s England to help us understand our
own vulnerabilities and poses urgent questions we must face to protect our freedom. At what
point does complacency become complicity  posing real risk to the democratic norms that we take
for granted? Will democracy again succeed?and will it require a similarly cataclysmic event
like World War II to ensure its survival? Will we  in our own defining moment  stand up for
democratic values?or will we succumb to political extremism?

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