Michael Bloch Libros

The final compilation from James Lees-Milnes celebrated diaries covering the last fourteen years of his life.

In eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City-Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo-the history of the buildings themselves, and Lees-Milne's inspired description and criticism of them as architectural masterpieces.

In January 1931, Wallis Simpson, the American wife of a conventional London businessman, realized the daydream of every middle-class woman in England; in the course a weekend country house party in the English Midlands, she was introduced socially to the great idol of the day, Edward Prince of Wales. This book relates the most celebrated love story of modern times - that of Wallis Simpson (nee Warfield) of Baltimore, later the Duchess of Windsor, and Prince of Wales, Edward VIII of England to be.

A brilliantly written, insightful and entertaining life of the disgraced former leader of the Liberal Party - one of the most colourful characters of post-war British politics

An account of the inception and development of the Alexander Technique, and of the life of the man who invented it, F M Alexander.

The authorized biography of 'the greatest diarist of our times'

The first of three abridged volumes of 'the greatest diarist of our times'

Of all the bizarre individuals projected into high office by Hitler's revolution, none was more improbable than Joachim von Ribbentrop. A successful middle-class businessman with Jewish friends, a romantic conservative who dreamt of restoring Germany's fallen monarchy and colonial empire, Ribbentrop joined the Nazis on the eve of their taking power. In spite of the hostility from both traditionalists and old guard Nazis, he began the spectacular rise which led to his becoming Hitler's Foreign Minister in 1938, a post he held until the end of the Third Reich.

A colourful and brilliantly researched study of closet homosexuality in twentieth-century British politics.

This is a new biography of the Duchess of Windsor containing the famous Windsor correspondence, photographs from her private collection and some interesting revelations