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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... things about himself , and all who knew him seem to agree on these points . One was that he could not see himself falling into line as a banker ( and he certainly would have made a dreadful one ) . The other was that young Dick could ...
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... thing clean of dust and in- sects , and setting it up on a camp desk whenever RM wanted to type up his notes on ... things up in them . And there are diary entries placing him on a certain ship or in a certain port on a certain date ...
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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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