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Windsor Story
ISBN: 9780440193463
出版社: Dell Publishing
出版年: 1981-02
定价: USD 3.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Since my collaborator and friend, J. Bryan III,has done
the larger share of this book, it has fallen to me to relate
how our collaboratinn began and why we have told the
story of the Windsors as we have.
We came to know them rather well in the years after
World War Two. Both of us were then officers in the U.S.
Air Force Reserve, and we usually did our tours of duty in
Paris at SHAPE---Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers
Europe---first under Gan. ALfred M. Gruenther, U.S.A.,
then under Gen. Lanris Norstad, U.S.A.F. The hospitable
Windsors would have us over for dinner at their mansion
in Neuiny from time to time, and for weekends at their
famous "Mill"--the Moulin de la Tuilerie--neer Gif-sur-
Yvette, half an hour from town.
The Windsor table, after the clatter and rush of the
SHAPE mess, unfailingly offered an experience in sus-
tained elegance and ornamental luxury hardly to be
matched elsewhere. We liked our hosts. Neither of us con-
sidered himself an intimate; indeed, none of their other
friends seemed to achieve that status, either. Prudence sug-
gested that such intimacy could be a slippery, even a haz-
ardous relationship. Being in their company, whether at
cocktails beside the pool at The Mill, or at their gleaming
table, or over coffee in the library walled with unread
books, was like watching a brisk comedy of manners, with
