Once A Gentleman
by Donald James
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Pub Date 25 Sep 2015 | Archive Date 1 Oct 2015
Description
The First World War looms.
Tall, blond Claus von Hardenberg, an impoverished German aristocrat, arrives in Cambridge.
Unable to believe his luck, a rich relation offers to pay for his education at one of the greatest universities in the world.
His youthful enthusiasm for all things British leads him to heartily — if foolishly — embrace the myth of the English gentleman, and to fall headlong in love with his English cousin, Lady Diana Winslow.
Their passionate courtship is sweet, but cannot be savoured.
Time and international politics conspire to keep the lovers apart.
When World War I erupts, Claus returns to his homeland to fight against the country he so recently adopted as his own, and Diana is thrust into her role as the heiress to the Winslow fortune.
Both fight against all they know, all they have learnt, in the search for survival and the search to find each other once again.
The fighting takes Claus to Africa where amid the amoral, fabulously wealthy society of the white settlers, awash in champagne and cocaine, he flirts with free love and fascism.
Can Claus return to his love?
Or will the African colonies wash away the qualities that made him ‘Once a Gentleman’?
‘Once A Gentleman’ is a sweeping, richly textured tale of an obsessional love affair that parallels a lost generation’s coming of age in the flamboyant twenties and sinister thirties.
Donald James was born in London and grew up there during World War II. After the war he served as an intelligence officer in the British Parachute Regiment in Germany, Austria and Trieste. He took an honours degree in European history at Pembroke College, Cambridge and after graduating worked in Fleet Street for the Daily Telegraph and subsequently as a writer for the BBC. He is the author of many books, both novels and non-fiction, which have been translated into thirteen languages.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
Tall, blond Claus von Hardenberg, an impoverished German aristocrat, arrives in Cambridge.
Unable to believe his luck, a rich relation offers to pay for his education at one of the greatest universities in the world.
His youthful enthusiasm for all things British leads him to heartily — if foolishly — embrace the myth of the English gentleman, and to fall headlong in love with his English cousin, Lady Diana Winslow.
Their passionate courtship is sweet, but cannot be savoured.
Time and international politics conspire to keep the lovers apart.
When World War I erupts, Claus returns to his homeland to fight against the country he so recently adopted as his own, and Diana is thrust into her role as the heiress to the Winslow fortune.
Both fight against all they know, all they have learnt, in the search for survival and the search to find each other once again.
The fighting takes Claus to Africa where amid the amoral, fabulously wealthy society of the white settlers, awash in champagne and cocaine, he flirts with free love and fascism.
Can Claus return to his love?
Or will the African colonies wash away the qualities that made him ‘Once a Gentleman’?
‘Once A Gentleman’ is a sweeping, richly textured tale of an obsessional love affair that parallels a lost generation’s coming of age in the flamboyant twenties and sinister thirties.
Donald James was born in London and grew up there during World War II. After the war he served as an intelligence officer in the British Parachute Regiment in Germany, Austria and Trieste. He took an honours degree in European history at Pembroke College, Cambridge and after graduating worked in Fleet Street for the Daily Telegraph and subsequently as a writer for the BBC. He is the author of many books, both novels and non-fiction, which have been translated into thirteen languages.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
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