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Higham alleges that "Errol Flyn could have been tried for treason. The world-famous star could have ended his life on a hangman's noose." Dramatic? Definitely. He also alleges that he has seen documents, now declassified and therefore available to the public, that prove the star of Robin Hood, They Died With Their Boots On, Captain Blood and many other films was in fact a spy for the Gestapo, working together with Dr. Hermann Erben, leading SS man, and that the film industry was involved in the cover up. And yet more - Higham also claims Flynn the Infamous Womaniser also had affairs with Howard Hughes, fellow heart throb actor Tyrone Power and Truman Capote. Manslaughter, drug running and gold smuggling are also alleged. The declassified documents that Higham claims are not reproduced in this book - only listed. -
Known to millions all over the world as the best-selling author of books about visitors from outer space, Erich von Däniken, the man, is an enigma. What are we to make of someone who is, at the same time, a writer and thinker whose daring ideas have been desseminated in millions of books and a man who has been convicted of fraud and embezzlement? In this biography of von Däniken, by his friend Peter Krassa, the author of Chariots Of The Gods? is revealed as an extraordinary, larger than life character. Däniken gives us his own account of what really happened in the miscarriage of justice that led to his arrest and imprisonment. Krassa paints a vivid picture of this seeker after gods, who has travelled from India to the jungles of South America in his search for proof of his theories of 'astronaut gods' who visited Earth in the distant past. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
Endgame: David Rohde
$18.00Described as the most vivid and comprehensive account written of the fall and massacre of Srebrenica, cynical power politics and the inefficiencies of the U.N. Peacekeeping Command in the former Yugoslavia. Rohde was the first reporter to find mass graves near Srebrenica and recieved the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his stories on the atrocities.
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Here is the story of seven years of patrolling by one of the Australian Inland Mission padres and his wife. Their only home was the vehicle in which they travelled and their parish was the northern third of Queensland - the then-forgotten 'top-end' of Australia. Written with humour, warmth and a very human fellow-feeling together with a love for her country and the end result is a story with plenty of information and interest regarding the Australian Inland Mission and its work. -
Without doubt, Sir Elton John is the most successful singer/songwriter, pianist and entertainer rolled into one. The ultimate rock superstar, he has enjoyed the highs and lows of success and excess in equal measure. Renowned for an extravagant lifestyle, unstinting generosity and the occasional 'moment', he is a friend to the stars and royalty alike. This is an exploration of his life and work, from his childhood and schooldays and his early days with the band Bluesology through to his current top celebrity status. Not without controversy, Elton has ed a complicated life under the media spotlight - drug and alcohol addictions, a marriage which ended in less than five years and he was plagued by tabloid-inspired gay-sex allegations. yet he recovered from these personal crises and founded the Elton John AIDS Foundation which has raised more than £20 million for AIDS victims and research. Illustrated with 16 pages of colour photographs. -
Princess Elizabeth of York was crowned Queen on June 2, 1953 and the world watched as she dedicated herself to her country. Drawing on his own experience with the Royal family, together with meticulous research and rare archive material, Titchmarsh tells the story of a young woman thrust into the limelight and how sixty glorious years have revealed her dignity, wisdom and unrivalled devotion to her people. With black and white and colour photographs. -
The Edwardian period was a great age for English fiction. Many classic novels were first published then - Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Lost World; E. M. Forster's A Room with a View and Howard's End; Conrad's Lord Jim and Nostromo; for children, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and A Little Princess and Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill and Just So Stories; the first of Galsworthy's Forsyte novels, The Man of Property; Erskine Childers's great spy story The Riddle of the Sands; Arnold Bennett's Clayhanger, Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. But alongside these there was a wealth of other writing, much of it forgotten or half-forgotten, some of it unjustly neglected, and all of it important to the literary context in which the enduringly popular works were produced. This Companion examines the broad sweep of fiction-writing from 1900 to the outbreak of the First World War - a time when novels in Britain were produced more cheaply, and read more widely, than ever before. There's over 800 author-entries as well as articles on individual books, literary periodicals and general topics. With the new century came fiction from new sources, which explored new subjects and was read by new audiences. An unprecedented number of women began to publish - they represent nearly half the author-entries here - though many of them chose to do so under noms de plume. Genres such as spy stories, Ruritanian romance and detective fiction were invented or suddenly came into their own, each with its following of readers. Significant social developments and themes can be traced both in the Companion at large and via the topic entries, which for the first time allow readers to explore all the novels in a particular genre. -
The Edwardian era marked a great turning point in modern British history. In many spheres it produced the culmination of British power and influence which had been growing rapidly in the nineteenth century. Yet it also witnessed the beginnings of the decline which was accelerated through the twentieth century. Abroad, the British Empire reached its zenith during the Edwardian years but the military challenge of Germany was growing stronger. At home, the apparently dominant Liberal and Conservative parties were being threatened by a new political force in the Socialists. Many misconceptions about the period, social, economic, political, and diplomatic have gained currency. At one extreme, it has been seen as a Golden age, shattered by the sudden impact of war in 1914; at the other extreme, it has been portrayed as an age of crisis, its society already collapsing under pressure of internal problems. This survey presents a vivid portrait of the turmoil and vibrance of British society at the beginning of the twentieth century and suggests ways in which the history of this period has shaped the subsequent development of Britain through the century. -
The Dominance of the Duke of Northumberland. Edward VI (b. 1537; reigned 1547 - 1553) was not yet 10 years old when he ascended England's throne; the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and England's first monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because he never reached maturity. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick (1550–1553), who from 1551 was Duke of Northumberland. Edward's reign was marked by economic problems and social unrest that in 1549 erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland and Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. The transformation of the Church of England into a recognisably Protestant body also occurred under Edward, who took great interest in religious matters. His short reign was, from start to finish, ruled by more than 30 counsellors and executors appointed by Henry VIII's will, causing a bitter power struggle. Edward VI named his cousin Lady Jane Grey as his successor, completely bypassing his half-sisters Anne and Elizabeth; Jane's reign lasted nine days before she was deposed by Mary.
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