Modern Classics Famous Last WordsPenguin Canada, 28 juin 2005 - 392 pages In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament—the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in scandal and political corruption. The exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor, von Ribbentrop, Hitler, Charles Lindbergh, Sir Harry Oakes—all play sinister parts in an elaborate scheme to secure world domination. |
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... Estella , Miguel de Rivera : Falangist hero of the Catalan Front and son of a former Spanish dictator . He was an old and trusted friend of the Duke's ; a hunting crony from happier bachelor days . He was small , dark and wiry- " wound ...
... Estella , Miguel de Rivera : Falangist hero of the Catalan Front and son of a former Spanish dictator . He was an old and trusted friend of the Duke's ; a hunting crony from happier bachelor days . He was small , dark and wiry- " wound ...
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... Estella's catalogue was filled with such images . “ I stood here , " he would say to the Duke , “ and you were over there to the left . Someone stood beside you . Who was that ? " The Duke could not remember . He would struggle with the ...
... Estella's catalogue was filled with such images . “ I stood here , " he would say to the Duke , “ and you were over there to the left . Someone stood beside you . Who was that ? " The Duke could not remember . He would struggle with the ...
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... Estella ? " " No , Your Excellency . I have already said so . " " The Marques de Estella was involved in a plot to kidnap your friends the Duke and Duchess of Windsor . " I had not , till then , heard of this . von Ribbentrop continued ...
... Estella ? " " No , Your Excellency . I have already said so . " " The Marques de Estella was involved in a plot to kidnap your friends the Duke and Duchess of Windsor . " I had not , till then , heard of this . von Ribbentrop continued ...
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