The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters
(Book)

Previously published: Take Six Girls. London : Head of Zeus, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-370) and index.

Six glamorous women: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege, the Mitford sisters were the "bright young things" of high society London in the 1920s and 1930s. But as the shadow of Fascism crept over Europe, the stark--and very public--differences in their outlooks would reflect the political extremes of a dangerous era. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by British poet laureate John Betjeman; the third was a Fascist who married Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after World War II. --,Adapted from dust jacket.