The Education of Don Juan Author:Robin Hardy Don Juan. Born in 1921 to a Spanish duchess. Raised in a household of women, he was inexorably drawn to the female of the species, highborn and low. And as 20th-century history swept from the Spanish Civil War to the Nazi occupation of France through the Battle of Britain, pure-hearted and warm-blooded, handsome and heroic Don Juan embarked o... more »n a life adventure that thrust him into the most violent political and military battlegrounds of our times--and into the arms of the most thrillingly dangerous and powerful women of Europe.« less