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The Meinertzhagen Mystery - The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud (Paperback)
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The Meinertzhagen Mystery - The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud (Paperback)
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Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen (1878-1967) 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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