Coco and Ben Doar: A Tale of Paranoia, Pessimism and Panic

The Duke of Westminster and his friends admired the Nazi movement, most particularly for its strong stance against the Jews. Lawrence James, author of a book called aristocrats claims, what lay behind their support of appeasement was a fear of communism. What emerges is a picture of a knot of peers adrift in an un-congenial world united by paranoia, pessimism and panic.