Follows the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara set against the American Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction.

Competition between brothers for their father's love leads to a tragic end; family tensions erupt on a southern plantation between a terminally ill man, his alcoholic son, and the son's frustrated wife; a disturbed woman moves in with her sister and brutish brother-in-law in New Orleans; new in town, a troubled teen tries to prove himself to his peers and find the love he does not get from his family.

On the eve of World War II, Roy, a British officer, revisits Waterloo Bridge where he and Myra met and fell in love during an air raid at the beginning of World War I. Heartbroken after Roy was reportedly killed in action, Myra turned to prostitution to make her way. The report, however, was false, and when Roy returns from a POW camp, Myra's shattered spirit may no longer hold any room for happiness.

Night club proprietor Rick encounters his long lost love and her Resistance-leader husband in Nazi-occupied North Africa; follows the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara set against the American Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction; during a tornado in rural Kansas, a young girl is swept away to a magical land and embarks on a journey to see the Wizard who can help her return home; a Hollywood actor who has risen from...

Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth-century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously-unseen...