Reviews

Hutto brings to light the fascinating story of Muriel White... an exhilarating account of principled antifascism.
— Publishers Weekly

With extensive knowledge and prodigious research, Richard Jay Hutto has unearthed an extraordinary saga, ultimately tragic, proving once again that rich American girls should have nothing to do with unworthy European aristocrats. The book has an important subplot: the poignant story of Queen Geraldine of the Albanians. A most enjoyable read.
— Hugo Vickers, award-winning royal biographer and broadcaster; author of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece, and others

In Richard Jay Hutto’s The Countess and the Nazis, the only biography of Muriel White, a heroine relegated to a forgotten footnote of history, the author resurrects her remarkable story.
— Marlene Wagman-Geller, author of Women of Means and The Secret Lives of Royal Women

A Gilded Age American heiress with an impeccable social pedigree marries nobleman Count Hermann Seherr-Thoss of Prussian Silesia on the eve of World War I—and then all hell breaks loose. Richard Jay Hutto’s The Countess and the Nazis has glamour to spare, brand names from Queen Victoria to Ian Fleming, and international intrigue of the highest order—all played out in one family’s story.
— Donna M. Lucey, author of Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas and the New York Times best-selling Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age

Richard Jay Hutto’s The Countess and the Nazis is a vividly detailed account of rich Americans and European aristocrats, from the glamour of the Gilded Age to the deadly dangers of the Third Reich. At the heart of the story is the complex and courageous American heiress Muriel White, Countess Seherr-Thoss, who engages the reader from the dramatic first page through the rest of her turbulent life. Hutto describes her world and its famous and infamous characters as though he knew them all.
— Patricia Beard, author of After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals & the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905

This compelling tale traces the intricately intertwined history of American high society with European nobility in the face of rising Nazism. A haunting saga of family in the turmoil and tragedy of the twentieth century.
— Dina Gold, author of Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18, Berlin