Richard Jay Hutto The Countess and the Nazis (Hardback)

by Richard Jay

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Further Details Title: The Countess and the Nazis Condition: New Subtitle: An American Family's Private War Author: Richard Jay Hutto Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 1493086561 EAN: 9781493086566 ISBN: 9781493086566 Publisher: The Lyons Press Genre: History Topic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships, Military History, Biography Release Date: 04/18/2025 Description: Muriel White was a scion of several “first families” of the U.S. Born into great wealth at the height of the Gilded Age, her mother was so famously beautiful that Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about it. Muriel’s father, who signed the Versailles Peace Treaty on behalf of the U.S., was among the most brilliant and respected diplomats of his day and their daughter was reared at the courts of Europe among the social elite of the era. Muriel, who spoke six languages fluently, ultimately married a Prussian count whose family held extensive estates and a hereditary seat in the Prussian House of Lords. She gave birth to three children, but the gathering clouds of World War II strained her relationship with her husband. He seemed to care only about protecting his family’s extensive estates, while Muriel plainly saw what Germany’s future was becoming. As she mentored her husband’s cousin, the future Queen Geraldine of Albania, through courtship, marriage, and the birth of the crown prince, Muriel witnessed firsthand the Italian Fascist invasion of Albania in 1939 and the royal family’s narrow escape from capture.

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
• Year: 2025
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781493086566
• Condition: Fine

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