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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... Entry for 17 November 1922 ( datelined Baghdad ) . 21. Diaries of Gertrude Bell , entry for 2 October 1919. Miss Bell met with RM on quite a few occasions during his Middle East appointments in 1919-1923 . She had trouble spelling his ...
... Entry for 17 November 1922 ( datelined Baghdad ) . 21. Diaries of Gertrude Bell , entry for 2 October 1919. Miss Bell met with RM on quite a few occasions during his Middle East appointments in 1919-1923 . She had trouble spelling his ...
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... Entry for 26 September 1939 . 10. Robert Vansittart , The Mist Procession ( London : Hutchinson , 1958 ) . 11. RMD , vol . 72. Entry dated 28 March 1962 . 12. RM letter to Hatter Bailey , 17 February 1957 . 13. RMD , vol . 45 , 90. Entry ...
... Entry for 26 September 1939 . 10. Robert Vansittart , The Mist Procession ( London : Hutchinson , 1958 ) . 11. RMD , vol . 72. Entry dated 28 March 1962 . 12. RM letter to Hatter Bailey , 17 February 1957 . 13. RMD , vol . 45 , 90. Entry ...
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... Entry dated 11 November 1939 . 20. RMD , vol . 45 , 138. Entry dated 6 December 1939 . 21. RMD , vol . 45 , 127-128 . Entry dated 22 November 1939. Field Marshal Sir William Edmund Ironside ( Baron Ironside of Archangel and Ironside ...
... Entry dated 11 November 1939 . 20. RMD , vol . 45 , 138. Entry dated 6 December 1939 . 21. RMD , vol . 45 , 127-128 . Entry dated 22 November 1939. Field Marshal Sir William Edmund Ironside ( Baron Ironside of Archangel and Ironside ...
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