Anne Sebba

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other inmates, forced labourers who left each morning and returned, exhausted and often broken, at the end of the...

"A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history" HADLEY FREEMAN "Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down" VICTORIA HISLOP "Ethel sings out for all women who have been misunderstood and wronged, and refuse to bow down" NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE "A shocking tale of betrayal, naivety, misogyny and judicial failure" SONIA PURNELL "A...

One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba has written the first full biography by a woman of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. That Woman, as she was referred to by the Queen Mother, became a hate figure for ensnaring a British king and destabilising...

WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 June, 1940. German troops enter Paris and hoist the swastika over the Arc de Triomphe. The dark days of Occupation begin. How would you have survived? By collaborating with the Nazis, or risking the lives of you and your loved ones to resist? The women of Paris faced this dilemma every day...

‘Superb and timely’ KATE MOSSE ‘Impressive, important, deeply moving’ SARAH WATERS ‘Brilliant’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be forced to provide solace to the perpetrators of a genocide that...