Free (ADE-DRM) Wallis's War by Kate Auspitz [Alternate History Satire Spy Thriller]

ATDrake · 08-01-2017, 11:43 AM

Wallis's War: A Novel of Diplomacy and Intrigue by Kate Auspitz (ISFDB), a political historian who formerly taught at Harvard University and also writes mysteries as Sophie Belfort (Fantastic Fiction), is her standalone speculative fiction alternate historical drama novel with elements of satire and suspense centred around Wallis Warfield Simpson, the divorcée who eventually married the abdicated King Edward, this one positing a secret history in which she was actually an undercover agent tasked with removing the pro-German future monarch from the throne, seen in the form of a faux-memoir, free for a limited time courtesy of the University of Chicago Press.

This is their featured Free Book of the Month selection for August, and this edition includes a new preface.

Currently free through August directly @ the university's dedicated promo page (ADE-DRM ePub available worldwide in return for your valid email address, approx 1.4 mb), and you can read more about the book on its regular catalogue page

Description
Scandalous divorcée. Nazi sympathizer. Style icon. Her Grace the Duchess of Windsor. Such are the many—and many times questionable—monikers of the infamous Wallis Simpson. And with Wallis’s War, Kate Auspitz adds another to this list: unwitting heroine.

The facts: reviled by the British as a social-climbing seductress even as Time magazine named her its 1936 Woman of the Year, Simpson was the American socialite whose affair with King Edward VIII led him to abdicate the throne on the eve of WWII. In this fanciful novel written in the form of a fictional memoir, Auspitz imagines an alternative history in which Simpson was encouraged by Allied statesmen to remove defeatist, pro-German Edward from the throne, forever altering the course of the war. A comically unreliable narrator who knows more than she realizes, and reveals more than she knows, Simpson leads us from historic treaties and military campaigns to dinner parties and cruises as she describes encounters with everyone from Duff and Diana Cooper to Charles Lindbergh, Coco Chanel, and Hitler—all the while acting as a willing but seemingly oblivious pawn of international intrigue.

A rare blend of diplomacy and dalliance, fashion and fascists, this meticulously researched satire offers witty and erudite entertainment and leaves us speculating: who really brought about the abdication and—always—what were they wearing?

GlenBarrington · 08-01-2017, 12:20 PM

Sounds interesting but there's no Kindle compatibility and I despise ADE DRM. Unfortunately I will need to pass.

petercreasey · 08-01-2017, 09:29 PM

I happily grabbed it when Univ of Chicago Press sent me the link. (ADE is a snap...nothing to not like!)

badgoodDeb · 08-02-2017, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petercreasey

I happily grabbed it when Univ of Chicago Press sent me the link. (ADE is a snap...nothing to not like!)

Do how do you remove ADE? I've never heard of it before. This book intrigues me though!

edit: or even NOT removing ADE: how do you make this book work on a Kindle?

JSWolf · 08-02-2017, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Do how do you remove ADE? I've never heard of it before. This book intrigues me though!

edit: or even NOT removing ADE: how do you make this book work on a Kindle?

Remove the DRM and convert with Calibre. Done and done.

Dr. Drib · 08-02-2017, 03:45 PM

Got it.

Simple.

Epub.

AZW3.

Thanks.

Now: Which one should I read first? (Jon - help me!)

badgoodDeb · 08-02-2017, 03:59 PM

I started to get it. But it wanted me to have an Adobe ID .... okayyyyyy, I did that. Then it downloaded software on my machine and wanted not just the Adobe ID (which I tied to facebook) but a separate password .....

I've got too many bleepin' accounts right now, and have no other need for an Adobe account or ID. So I quit and gave up on the book.

I did download the book-sample from amazon, and *if* I get around to reading it, I'll decide later if it's worth all the above hassle.

Dr. Drib · 08-02-2017, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I started to get it. But it wanted me to have an Adobe ID .... okayyyyyy, I did that. Then it downloaded software on my machine and wanted not just the Adobe ID (which I tied to facebook) but a separate password .....

I've got too many bleepin' accounts right now, and have no other need for an Adobe account or ID. So I quit and gave up on the book.

I did download the book-sample from amazon, and *if* I get around to reading it, I'll decide later if it's worth all the above hassle.

Slightly OT:

On a Macbook Pro and using Firefox, one can have passwords remembered and/or recalled. I do that because I have a ton of different passwords and I can't remember them all.

Gotadimple · 08-03-2017, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Slightly OT:

On a Macbook Pro and using Firefox, one can have passwords remembered and/or recalled. I do that because I have a ton of different passwords and I can't remember them all.

Firefox works the same way on a PC with windows, or an Android device.

badgoodDeb · 08-03-2017, 02:01 PM

Yeah, I know. I'm just *unwilling* to create so many unneeded accounts everywhere I go.

koland · 08-05-2017, 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Yeah, I know. I'm just *unwilling* to create so many unneeded accounts everywhere I go.

With ADE, you use the email address and password that opens all the EPUBs and audiobooks you borrow from libraries. And any EPUB from pretty much any bookstore other than Amazon (and PDF's, if you still are into those).

Plus all the free books from from this University store and many, many other stores.

If you have to prune, kill off something else and get an ADE account set up and the software installed (and you don't even have to use the official ADE software, if you prefer others on tablets and phones, they exist -- all use the same account).

badgoodDeb · 08-11-2017, 02:15 PM

Ok. Got ADE password, opened book, searched on hard drive for where it PUT the epub files. Discovered that I had done this before, as there are a dozen books from 2012 in that directory too.

Off to get Calibre to work on it. Will be back to complain some more, if that's not straight forward.

ATDrake · 08-31-2017, 01:23 AM

Just a reminder that this will probably be the last day to pick up the freebie, if you're interested.

08-01-2017, 11:43 AM	#1
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free (ADE-DRM) Wallis's War by Kate Auspitz [Alternate History Satire Spy Thriller] Wallis's War: A Novel of Diplomacy and Intrigue by Kate Auspitz (ISFDB), a political historian who formerly taught at Harvard University and also writes mysteries as Sophie Belfort (Fantastic Fiction), is her standalone speculative fiction alternate historical drama novel with elements of satire and suspense centred around Wallis Warfield Simpson, the divorcée who eventually married the abdicated King Edward, this one positing a secret history in which she was actually an undercover agent tasked with removing the pro-German future monarch from the throne, seen in the form of a faux-memoir, free for a limited time courtesy of the University of Chicago Press. This is their featured Free Book of the Month selection for August, and this edition includes a new preface. Currently free through August directly @ the university's dedicated promo page (ADE-DRM ePub available worldwide in return for your valid email address, approx 1.4 mb), and you can read more about the book on its regular catalogue page Description Scandalous divorcée. Nazi sympathizer. Style icon. Her Grace the Duchess of Windsor. Such are the many—and many times questionable—monikers of the infamous Wallis Simpson. And with Wallis’s War, Kate Auspitz adds another to this list: unwitting heroine. The facts: reviled by the British as a social-climbing seductress even as Time magazine named her its 1936 Woman of the Year, Simpson was the American socialite whose affair with King Edward VIII led him to abdicate the throne on the eve of WWII. In this fanciful novel written in the form of a fictional memoir, Auspitz imagines an alternative history in which Simpson was encouraged by Allied statesmen to remove defeatist, pro-German Edward from the throne, forever altering the course of the war. A comically unreliable narrator who knows more than she realizes, and reveals more than she knows, Simpson leads us from historic treaties and military campaigns to dinner parties and cruises as she describes encounters with everyone from Duff and Diana Cooper to Charles Lindbergh, Coco Chanel, and Hitler—all the while acting as a willing but seemingly oblivious pawn of international intrigue. A rare blend of diplomacy and dalliance, fashion and fascists, this meticulously researched satire offers witty and erudite entertainment and leaves us speculating: who really brought about the abdication and—always—what were they wearing?

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08-01-2017, 12:20 PM	#2
GlenBarrington Cheese Whiz Posts: 1,986 Karma: 11677147 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Springfield, Illinois Device: Kindle PW, Samsung Tab A 10.1(2019), Pixel 6a.	Sounds interesting but there's no Kindle compatibility and I despise ADE DRM. Unfortunately I will need to pass.

08-01-2017, 09:29 PM	#3
petercreasey Wizard Posts: 1,188 Karma: 1119516 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Sony: PRS 950 & T1, Kobo: Aura One & Forma	I happily grabbed it when Univ of Chicago Press sent me the link. (ADE is a snap...nothing to not like!)

08-02-2017, 03:45 PM	#6
Dr. Drib Grand Sorcerer Posts: 45,441 Karma: 59592133 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Peru Device: KINDLE: Oasis 3, Scribe (1st), Matcha; KOBO: Libra 2, Libra Colour	Got it. Simple. Epub. AZW3. Thanks. Now: Which one should I read first? (Jon - help me!)

08-02-2017, 03:59 PM	#7
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,550 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	I started to get it. But it wanted me to have an Adobe ID .... okayyyyyy, I did that. Then it downloaded software on my machine and wanted not just the Adobe ID (which I tied to facebook) but a separate password ..... I've got too many bleepin' accounts right now, and have no other need for an Adobe account or ID. So I quit and gave up on the book. I did download the book-sample from amazon, and if I get around to reading it, I'll decide later if it's worth all the above hassle.

08-03-2017, 02:01 PM	#10
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,550 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Yeah, I know. I'm just unwilling to create so many unneeded accounts everywhere I go.

08-11-2017, 02:15 PM	#12
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,550 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Ok. Got ADE password, opened book, searched on hard drive for where it PUT the epub files. Discovered that I had done this before, as there are a dozen books from 2012 in that directory too. Off to get Calibre to work on it. Will be back to complain some more, if that's not straight forward.

08-31-2017, 01:23 AM	#13
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Just a reminder that this will probably be the last day to pick up the freebie, if you're interested.

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