Nazi Wives
The Women at the Top of Hitler’s Germany James Wyllie Women at the top of Nazi Germany revealed
November 2019 £20 9780750991223 Hardback 234x156mm, 288 pages 15 b&w Illustrations English language rights, UK & Commonwealth James Wyllie is an author, broadcaster and award-winning screenwriter. He is the author of Goering and Goering (THP) and The Codebreakers: the True Story of the Secret Intelligence Team That Changed the Course of the First World War (Ebury).
Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann – names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind these infamous men – complex individuals with distinctive personalities who, as they fell under Hitler’s spell, were drawn deeper and deeper into a perverse version of reality. In ‘Nazi Wives’ James Wyllie skilfully interweaves their stories, exploring their roles in detail for the first time against a backdrop of the rise, fall and aftermath of Nazism, notable for the resolute lack of contrition from the wives who survived.