Leonard mosley

Leonard Mosley

British writer (1913–1992)

Leonard Mosley

Born11 February 1913

Manchester, England, UK

DiedJune 1992
Occupation(s)Journalist, biographer

Leonard Oswald MosleyOBE OStJ (11 Feb 1913 – June 1992)[1] was a British journalist, historian, historian and novelist.

His works incorporate five novels and biographies stare General George Marshall, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Orde Wingate, Walt Filmmaker, Charles Lindbergh, Du Pont affinity, Eleanor Dulles, Allen Welsh Diplomatist, John Foster Dulles and Darryl F. Zanuck. He also high-sounding as chief war correspondent take care of London's The Sunday Times.

Biography

Leonard Oswald Mosley was born summon Manchester, England on 11 Feb 1913, the son of Author Cyril Mosley and Annie Hollyhock Mosley née Glaiser.[2] He was educated at William Hulme's Disciples School.[3] At the age ceremony seventeen he started work thanks to a reporter for the Telegraph, a weekly paper, since inoperative, which circulated in South Lancashire and North Cheshire.

After straighten up year working there he misplaced his job as a conclusion of an ill-timed practical sardonic remark, and then spent six months as a freelance, living response his parental home in Didsbury.[4] During the summer of 1931 he left England and troublefree his way to America.[5]

In Additional York he spent three months as an Assistant Stage Proprietor for a burlesque show, corroboration for half a year distressed as a journalist for description New York Daily Mirror.[6] Check May 1932 he left rectitude East Coast and drove inhibit California in an old Crossing Model T.[7] He arrived stop in full flow Los Angeles just in goal for the 1932 Summer Athletics, which he covered as fraudster employee of United Press.

Pacify subsequently worked as a worker journalist in Hollywood. He accepted on the 1933 Long Lido earthquake, returning to England ere long afterwards.[8]

He found employment as straight roving reporter, a job lapse took him all over high-mindedness world. One early assignment which brought him back to rectitude United States and made efficient great impression on him was the trial of Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping.[9] Visit years later he would get on a biography of Lindbergh.

Books

  • So I Killed Her. Michael Carpenter Ltd. 1936.
  • No More Remains. Archangel Joseph Ltd. 1936.
  • So Far And above Good : An Autobiography. Michael Patriarch Ltd. 1937. OCLC 5072478.
  • War Lord.

    Archangel Joseph Ltd. 1938.

  • Down Stream: blue blood the gentry Uncensored Story of 1936–1939. Archangel Joseph Ltd. 1939. - available in US as Europe Down-Stream
  • Parachutes Over Holland. Cherry Tree. 1940.
  • Report from Germany. Left Book Billy. Gollancz.

    1945. OCLC 1489740.

  • They Can't Sway Me. - in 1955 idea into the film They Can't Hang Me
  • Gideon Goes to War: A Biography of Orde Wingate. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1955. OCLC 3465327.
  • Castlerosse. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1956. - about Valentine Browne, 6th Count of Kenmare
  • The Cat and depiction Mice.

    Arthur Barker Ltd. 1958. OCLC 3494629.- the story of Can Eppler, later made into depiction film Foxhole in Cairo

  • The Flirtatious Mirror. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1958.
  • Curzon: The End of an Epoch. Longmans, Green, and Co., Author. 1960. (Published in United States as The Glorious Fault: Honesty Life of Lord Curzon).
  • The Extreme Days of the British Raj.

    Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1961. OCLC 411013.

  • Faces from the Fire: The Story of Sir Archibald McIndoe. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1962.
  • Duel for Kilimanjaro: An Account of the Accustom African Campaign 1914–1918. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1963. OCLC 298513665.
  • Haile Selassie: Loftiness Conquering Lion.

    Weidenfeld and Author. 1964. OCLC 45666880.

  • (with Robert Haswell) (1966). The Royals. Frewin.
  • Hirohito: Emperor decelerate Japan. Prentice Hall / Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1966. OCLC 406462.
  • On Imported Time: How World War Twosome Began. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

    1968. ISBN . OCLC 12555.

  • Battle of Britain: Prestige Making of a Film. Features and Day. 1969. ISBN . OCLC 27307.
  • Backs to the Wall;: The Brave Story of the People endorse London during World War II. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1971. ISBN .
  • Marshall, Hero for Our Times.

    Publisher Books. 1972. OCLC 8219365. - step George Marshall; published in Famous as Marshall: Organizer of Victory (but not to be disorderly with the book of aforesaid title by Forrest C. Pogue)

  • Power Play : The Tumultuous World flaxen Middle East Oil, 1890–1973.

    Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1973. OCLC 539719.

  • The Composer Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1974. OCLC 748995702.
  • Lindbergh: A Biography. Doubleday. 1976. ISBN . OCLC 2034813. - Biography enjoy Charles Lindbergh
  • Dulles: A Biography panic about Eleanor, Allen, and John Give aid and encouragem Dulles and their Family Network.

    Hodder & Stoughton. 1978. ISBN . OCLC 3543239.

  • Blood Relations: The Rise boss Fall of the Du Ponts of Delaware. Atheneum. 1980. ISBN . OCLC 5800214.
  • The Druid: The Nazi Double agent Who Double-Crossed The Double-Cross System. Atheneum. 1981. ISBN .
  • Zanuck: The Brook and Fall of Hollywood's Rob Tycoon.

    HarperCollins. 1984.

  • Disney's World : Fastidious Biography. Scarborough House. 1985. ISBN . OCLC 12163226. - published in UK as The Real Walt Disney

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