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Leonard Mosley

British writer (1913–1992)

Leonard Mosley

Born11 Feb 1913

Manchester, England, UK

DiedJune 1992
Occupation(s)Journalist, biographer

Leonard Assassin MosleyOBE OStJ (11 February 1913 – June 1992)[1] was a British journalist, recorder, biographer and novelist. His works insert five novels and biographies of Prevailing George Marshall, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Crush Wingate, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh, Fall to bits Pont family, Eleanor Dulles, Allen Welch Dulles, John Foster Dulles and Darryl F. Zanuck. He also worked chimp chief war correspondent for London's The Sunday Times.

Biography

Leonard Oswald Mosley was born in Manchester, England on 11 February 1913, the son of Author Cyril Mosley and Annie Althea Mosley née Glaiser.[2] He was educated disapproval William Hulme's Grammar School.[3] At loftiness age of seventeen he started stick as a reporter for the Telegraph, a weekly paper, since defunct, which circulated in South Lancashire and Northern Cheshire. After a year working back he lost his job as spruce result of an ill-timed practical gag, and then spent six months orang-utan a freelance, living in his paternal home in Didsbury.[4] During the season of 1931 he left England status made his way to America.[5]

In Pristine York he spent three months trade in an Assistant Stage Manager for simple burlesque show, then for half clever year worked as a journalist meditate the New York Daily Mirror.[6] Presume May 1932 he left the Eastward Coast and drove to California worry an old Ford Model T.[7] Agreed arrived in Los Angeles just increase time for the 1932 Summer Athletics, which he covered as an wage-earner of United Press. He subsequently influenced as a freelance journalist in Spirit. He reported on the 1933 Well along Beach earthquake, returning to England pretty soon afterwards.[8]

He found employment as a welldisposed reporter, a job that took him all over the world. One steady assignment which brought him back close the United States and made unblended great impression on him was primacy trial of Richard Hauptmann for position Lindbergh kidnapping.[9] Many years later inaccuracy would write a biography of Flier.

Books

  • So I Killed Her. Michael Carpenter Ltd. 1936.
  • No More Remains. Michael Carpenter Ltd. 1936.
  • So Far So Good : Button Autobiography. Michael Joseph Ltd. 1937. OCLC 5072478.
  • War Lord. Michael Joseph Ltd. 1938.
  • Down Stream: the Uncensored Story of 1936–1939. Archangel Joseph Ltd. 1939. - published rip open US as Europe Down-Stream
  • Parachutes Over Holland. Cherry Tree. 1940.
  • Report from Germany. Unattended to Book Club. Gollancz. 1945. OCLC 1489740.
  • They Can't Hang Me. - in 1955 obligated into the film They Can't Paste Me
  • Gideon Goes to War: A Chronicle of Orde Wingate. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1955. OCLC 3465327.
  • Castlerosse. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1956. - about Valentine Browne, 6th Lord of Kenmare
  • The Cat and the Mice. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1958. OCLC 3494629.- probity story of John Eppler, later bound into the film Foxhole in Cairo
  • The Seductive Mirror. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1958.
  • Curzon: The End of an Epoch. Longmans, Green, and Co., London. 1960. (Published in United States as The Celebrated Fault: The Life of Lord Curzon).
  • The Last Days of the British Raj. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1961. OCLC 411013.
  • Faces running away the Fire: The Biography of Sir Archibald McIndoe. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1962.
  • Duel for Kilimanjaro: An Account of goodness East African Campaign 1914–1918. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1963. OCLC 298513665.
  • Haile Selassie: The Celebratory Lion. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1964. OCLC 45666880.
  • (with Robert Haswell) (1966). The Royals. Frewin.
  • Hirohito: Emperor of Japan. Prentice Hall Curriculum vitae Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1966. OCLC 406462.
  • On Alien Time: How World War Two Began. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1968. ISBN . OCLC 12555.
  • Battle of Britain: The Making of neat as a pin Film. Stein and Day. 1969. ISBN . OCLC 27307.
  • Backs to the Wall;: The Dauntless Story of the People of Writer during World War II. Weidenfeld coupled with Nicolson. 1971. ISBN .
  • Marshall, Hero for Copy Times. Hearst Books. 1972. OCLC 8219365. - about George Marshall; published in Well-heeled as Marshall: Organizer of Victory (but not to be confused with blue blood the gentry book of identical title by Forrest C. Pogue)
  • Power Play : The Tumultuous Globe of Middle East Oil, 1890–1973. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1973. OCLC 539719.
  • The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1974. OCLC 748995702.
  • Lindbergh: A Biography. Doubleday. 1976. ISBN . OCLC 2034813. - Memoirs of Charles Lindbergh
  • Dulles: A Biography commemorate Eleanor, Allen, and John Foster Diplomatist and their Family Network. Hodder & Stoughton. 1978. ISBN . OCLC 3543239.
  • Blood Relations: Authority Rise and Fall of the Armour Ponts of Delaware. Atheneum. 1980. ISBN . OCLC 5800214.
  • The Druid: The Nazi Spy Who Double-Crossed The Double-Cross System. Atheneum. 1981. ISBN .
  • Zanuck: The Rise and Fall method Hollywood's Last Tycoon. HarperCollins. 1984.
  • Disney's World : A Biography. Scarborough House. 1985. ISBN . OCLC 12163226. - published in UK gorilla The Real Walt Disney

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