The thinking is, I suppose, that this book is about a valet and Wodehouse’s writing featured a gentleman’s gentleman too. Plus, he did make those unfortunate recordings while held prisoner by the Nazis. Nonetheless, I was a trifle surprised to receive an email from Amazon.com suggesting that…
OK! Well now I know!As someone who has purchased or rated The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse, you might like to know that With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet will be released on September 1, 2009. You can pre-order yours at a savings of $8.48 by following the link below.
UPDATE: Just to be clear, like Fergus Pickering in the comments, I too am fed up with the “Wodehouse as a Nazi” nonsense. It was always piffle and Robert McCrum’s biography of Plum goes to exhaustive lengths to demonstrate the sillyness of it all.
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