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The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939

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The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 - Tinniswood, Adrian
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"Drawing on thousands of memoirs, unpublished letters and diaries, and the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, historian Adrian Tinniswood brings the stately homes of England to life ..., opening the door onto a world half-remembered, glamorous, shameful at times, and forever wrapped in myth. [His book] revels in the sheer variety of country house life: from King George V poring over his stamp collection at Sandringham to fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley collecting mistresses at ancestral homes ...

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The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 2016, Basic Books

ISBN-13: 9780465048984

Hardcover