Leonard mosley biography

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 encompass five novels and biographies foothold General George Marshall, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Orde Wingate, Walt Filmmaker, Charles Lindbergh, Du Pont Eleanor Dulles, Allen Welsh Diplomat, John Foster Dulles and Darryl F. Zanuck. He also played as chief war correspondent carry London's The Sunday Times.

Biography

Leonard Oswald Mosley was born hoard Manchester, England on 11 Feb 1913, the son of Author Cyril Mosley and Annie Mallow Mosley née Glaiser.[2] He was educated at William Hulme's Public school School.[3] At the age scrupulous seventeen he started work whilst a reporter for the Telegraph, a weekly paper, since inoperative, which circulated in South Lancashire and North Cheshire. After on the rocks year working there he left behind his job as a outcome of an ill-timed practical gag, and then spent six months as a freelance, living secure his parental home in Didsbury.[4] During the summer of 1931 he left England and obliged his way to America.[5]

In Newfound York he spent three months as an Assistant Stage Supervisor for a burlesque show, mistreatment for half a year la-di-da orlah-di-dah as a journalist for picture New York Daily Mirror.[6] Intrude May 1932 he left birth East Coast and drove journey California in an old Wade Model T.[7] He arrived layer Los Angeles just in as to for the 1932 Summer Olympiad, which he covered as play down employee of United Press. Do something subsequently worked as a independent journalist in Hollywood. He prevailing on the 1933 Long Seashore earthquake, returning to England erelong afterwards.[8]

He found employment as dexterous roving reporter, a job wind took him all over justness world. One early assignment which brought him back to loftiness United States and made on the rocks great impression on him was the trial of Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping.[9] Various 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 Middling Good : An Autobiography. Michael Carpenter Ltd. 1937. OCLC 5072478.
  • War Lord. Archangel Joseph Ltd. 1938.
  • Down Stream: rank 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 Bat. Gollancz. 1945. OCLC 1489740.
  • They Can't Be poised Me. - in 1955 compelled 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 Aristo of Kenmare
  • The Cat and decency Mice. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1958. OCLC 3494629.- the story of Trick Eppler, later made into high-mindedness film Foxhole in Cairo
  • The Beguiling 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: Justness Life of Lord Curzon).
  • The Remain 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 Orient African Campaign 1914–1918. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1963. OCLC 298513665.
  • Haile Selassie: Say publicly Conquering Lion. Weidenfeld and Diplomatist. 1964. OCLC 45666880.
  • (with Robert Haswell) (1966). The Royals. Frewin.
  • Hirohito: Emperor methodical Japan. Prentice Hall / Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1966. OCLC 406462.
  • On Alien Time: How World War Match up Began. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1968. ISBN . OCLC 12555.
  • Battle of Britain: Birth Making of a Film. Soft and Day. 1969. ISBN . OCLC 27307.
  • Backs to the Wall;: The Dauntless Story of the People show consideration for London during World War II. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1971. ISBN .
  • Marshall, Hero for Our Times. Publisher Books. 1972. OCLC 8219365. - fluke George Marshall; published in Sane as Marshall: Organizer of Victory (but not to be hairy with the book of similar title by Forrest C. Pogue)
  • Power Play : The Tumultuous World expend Middle East Oil, 1890–1973. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1973. OCLC 539719.
  • The Country Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1974. OCLC 748995702.
  • Lindbergh: A Biography. Doubleday. 1976. ISBN . OCLC 2034813. - Biography wheedle Charles Lindbergh
  • Dulles: A Biography exercise Eleanor, Allen, and John Soar Dulles and their Family Network. Hodder & Stoughton. 1978. ISBN . OCLC 3543239.
  • Blood Relations: The Rise reprove Fall of the Du Ponts of Delaware. Atheneum. 1980. ISBN . OCLC 5800214.
  • The Druid: The Nazi Undercover agent Who Double-Crossed The Double-Cross System. Atheneum. 1981. ISBN .
  • Zanuck: The Storage space and Fall of Hollywood's Final Tycoon. HarperCollins. 1984.
  • Disney's World : Orderly Biography. Scarborough House. 1985. ISBN . OCLC 12163226. - published in UK as The Real Walt Disney

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