My Life (Mosley autobiography)

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My Life

OCLC

245659224

My Life is the autobiography of the British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley (1896 – 1980). It was published in 1968.

Background

Mosely was the most prominent British fascist leader of the 1930s, founding the

, the party was proscribed by the British government and in 1940 it was disbanded, and Mosely interned in prison until 1943, after which he was put under house arrest for the rest of the war.

After the war, Mosley made several unsuccessful attempts to return to political life, one such being through the far-right euro-nationalist Union Movement (1948-1973), but he had no successes.

Release

The book was published in 1968. To coincide with the release of the book, the

Topics, themes and treatment

The book is structured as a sequential memoir, but it doubles as the author's personal defence against charges of antisemitism, as well as a general overview of world politics, both during his ascent, and at the time of its publication in the 1960s.^{[citation needed]}

My Life provides a close-up view of England's ruling class from an immensely rich man born into long-established nobility, and married to the daughter of

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References

External links

• Microsoft Reader version
• Portable Document Format (pdf) version