Unity Mitford Pb (Phoenix Giants S.) [Hardcover]

David Pryce-Jones (Author)

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Publication Date: November 6, 1995 | Series: Phoenix Giants S.

Unity Mitford was born to sensation. She joined the British Union of Fascists, moved to Germany and seduced Hitler, charming her way into intimate friendships with the most prominent Nazis. However, when war came she was ordered home to England by Hilter himself. This is her story.

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David Pryce-Jones is the author of many works of non-fiction, including The Closed Circle and Paris in the Third Reich. He has also written nine novels, of which Inheritance is his most recent.

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• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Phoenix Giants (November 6, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857993705
• ISBN-13: 978-1857993707
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #613,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hitler's British groupie., October 13, 2011

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Unity Mitford, born in 1914 into a dysfunctional aristocratic family, early on developed a rebellious personality and urge to impress by shocking conduct. So she was in 1932 when at the age of 18 she joined the British Union of Fascists and became an enthusiastic (without experiential basis) anti-semite. In 1933 she traveled with the BUF to a Nuremberg rally and, on hearing Hitler speak, was so struck that she moved to Munich to stalk him. Frequenting Hitler's favorite restaurant, she finally got his attention and a relationship began which gradually evolved until she was considered the British Eva Braun. Hitler was drawn to Unity by her admiration of him, by her aryan good looks, by her aristocratic British ancestry, and by her unbridled commitment to nazism. Their relationship grew into one of mutual (asexual) love, ending precipitously with Unity's attempted suicide in 1939 when Britain declared war on Germany for its invasion of Poland.

Revelatory is the disclosure that Hitler viewed his relationship with Unity (whom he undoubtedly loved) to be consistent with and useful in advancing his hope that Britain, a brother aryan nation, would not object to Germany's invasion of the slavic nations (particularly communist Russia) and would ultimately join Germany in a new world aryan order led by Germany. This was also Unity's hope and it was the dashing of this hope when Britain declared war on Germany that the author posits as the motive for Unity's suicide attempt. Maybe. I'm not convinced because Unity clearly had serious personality disorders with suicidal tendencies. Her politics were too superficial and shallow. More likely the motive for her attempted suicide was simply to carry out the final shocking act of her life's drama. (But don't feel any sympathy for Unity who displayed her cold heart when she went to an apartment given to her by Hitler and ignored the Jewish owners being forcefully evicted.)

I give this work less than 5 stars because too much of it is devoted to upper class name dropping which is probably titillating to Brits familiar with the rich and famous of the era, but a total bore to me.