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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), while 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.]]> 252531 2 244708 30 1 2007 The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud total:1|3:1| 1 3 3 0 136876 3.63 134 21 55690975 2307600 252531 1597970417 9781597970419 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173155554m/252531.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173155554s/252531.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252531.The_Meinertzhagen_Mystery_The_Life_and_Legend_of_a_Colossal_Fraud 3.00 1
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), while 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.]]> 2007 0 0 false Mon May 11 12:07:39 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 12:07:39 -0700 2009 53694861 133249 252531 1597970417 9781597970419 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173155554m/252531.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173155554s/252531.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252531.The_Meinertzhagen_Mystery_The_Life_and_Legend_of_a_Colossal_Fraud 3.00 1
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), while 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.]]> 2007 3 0 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 04:59:58 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 05:01:26 -0700 2009 20081663 833700 252531 1597970417 9781597970419 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173155554m/252531.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173155554s/252531.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252531.The_Meinertzhagen_Mystery_The_Life_and_Legend_of_a_Colossal_Fraud 3.00 1
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), while 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.]]> 2007 0 0 false Sun Apr 13 16:03:57 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 16:04:02 -0700 2008 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=252531