The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal FraudPotomac Books Incorporated, 2007 M01 31 - 386 páginas Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen (1878û1967) was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international ornithology. His exploits inspired three biographies, movies have been based on his life, and a square in Jerusalem is dedicated to his memory. Meinertzhagen was trusted by Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, T. E. Lawrence, Elspeth Huxley, and a great many others. He bamboozled them all. Meinertzhagen was a fraud. Many of the adventures recorded in his celebrated diaries were imaginary, including a meeting with Hitler while he had a loaded pistol in his pocket, an attempt to rescue the Russian royal family in 1918, and a shoot-out with Arabs in Haifa when he was seventy years old. True, he was a key player in Middle Eastern events after World War I, and during the 1930s he represented Zionism's interests in negotiations with Germany. But he also set up Nazi front organizations in England, committed a half-century of major and costly scientific fraud, and -- oddly -- may have been innocent of many killings to which he confessed (e.g., the murder of his own polo groom -- a crime of which he cheerfully boasted, although the evidence suggests it never occurred at all). Further, he may have been guilty of at least one homicide of which he professed innocence. A compelling read about a flamboyant rogue, The Meinertzhagen Mystery shows how recorded history reflects not what happened, but what we believe happened. |
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... October by an Australian officer ; this also failed as the Turks never pursued ; and my attempt was the third . . . . In addition to the notebook , several wireless messages were sent daily from 24 September to 31 October , 1917 , which ...
... October by an Australian officer ; this also failed as the Turks never pursued ; and my attempt was the third . . . . In addition to the notebook , several wireless messages were sent daily from 24 September to 31 October , 1917 , which ...
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... October 10 was the date when the Turks picked up the haversack . September 12 was the date when Neate dropped the haversack . Therefore- two haversacks , n'est - ce pas ? ( We may speculate why RM added yet a third haversack to his ...
... October 10 was the date when the Turks picked up the haversack . September 12 was the date when Neate dropped the haversack . Therefore- two haversacks , n'est - ce pas ? ( We may speculate why RM added yet a third haversack to his ...
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... October 5 , 1956 ; Times ( London ) , October 6 , 1967 . 24. Nicholas Wollaston , letter to the author , 20 May 2003. In the fall of 1960 RM was involved in a court case involving a neighbor and the neighbor's dog , whom RM held ...
... October 5 , 1956 ; Times ( London ) , October 6 , 1967 . 24. Nicholas Wollaston , letter to the author , 20 May 2003. In the fall of 1960 RM was involved in a court case involving a neighbor and the neighbor's dog , whom RM held ...
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The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud Brian Garfield Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud Brian Garfield Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud Brian Garfield Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
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