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The Meinertzhagen mystery : the life and legend of a colossal fraud
- Title
- The Meinertzhagen mystery : the life and legend of a colossal fraud / Brian Garfield.
- Author
- Garfield, Brian, 1939-2018.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2007], ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DA69.3.M4 G37 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Tall, handsome, charming, Col. Richard Meinertzhangen was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international ornithology. His exploits inspired three biographies, his life has been the basis for movies, and Jerusalem dedicated a city square 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." "But 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. While he truly was a key player in Middle Eastern events after World War I and represented Zionism's interests in negotiations with Germany in the 1930, he also set up Nazi front organizations in England, committed a half-century of major and costly scientific fraud, and may have murdered his wife to boot."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-341) and index.
- ISBN
- 1597970417 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 9781597970419 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2006024131
- 9781597970419
- OCLC
- OCM70707921
- 70707921
- SCSB-5312960
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries