Requiem for a family business

For 200 years the Guinness company had been run by the Guinness family. In 1985, the Distillers' Company sought a friendly merger with Guinness; however, the company was now led by Ernest Saunders. This book tells the story of boardroom battles and criminal trials.

Requiem for a Family Business

Biographies & Memoirs

Guinness, Jonathan

Community & Culture

Pan/Macmillan

Pamela Jackson, née Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, yet her story is just as captivating. Despite shunning the bright city lights that her sisters so desperately craved, she was very much involved in the activities of her extraordinary family, picking up the many pieces when things went disastrously wrong—as they so often did. Joining her sisters on many adventures, including their meeting with Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, Pamela quietly observed the bizarre, funny, and often tragic events that took place around her. Through her eyes, we are given a view of the Mitfords never seen before. Journalist Diana Alexander, who was Pamela’s friend for many years, here reveals the unknown Mitford, or, as her lifelong admirer John Betjeman described her, "Gentle Pamela."

The Other Mitford: Pamela's Story

Alexander, Diana

The History Press

The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.
Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, friend of Hitler; Jessica, who became a communist and then an investigative journalist; and Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire and mistress of Chatsworth. 
'The Mitford Girls,' as John Betjeman called them, were one of the twentieth century's most controversial families; said to be always either in shrieks of laughter or floods of tears, they were glamorous, romantic and - especially in politics - extreme. Yet the teasing, often bordering on cruelty, the flamboyant contrasts and the violent disagreements, hid a powerful affection, subtle likenesses in character, and a powerful underlying unity.

The House of Mitford

Historical

Phoenix

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