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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... NAULY : SEPTEMBER , 1936 It was a perfect English afternoon , resplendent with flowers and insects , seedcake and cucumber sandwiches . After their tea , Charles Augustus Lindbergh asked the Honourable Edward Allenby to walk with him ...
... NAULY : SEPTEMBER , 1936 It was a perfect English afternoon , resplendent with flowers and insects , seedcake and cucumber sandwiches . After their tea , Charles Augustus Lindbergh asked the Honourable Edward Allenby to walk with him ...
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... Nauly . Once - ten years before - he had thought so highly of the young man's courage and daring as to call his own son Charles Augustus . And he had grieved for both Lindberghs with all his heart when their baby had died . The birth of ...
... Nauly . Once - ten years before - he had thought so highly of the young man's courage and daring as to call his own son Charles Augustus . And he had grieved for both Lindberghs with all his heart when their baby had died . The birth of ...
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... Nauly . The funeral occurred on Friday , December 11th , 1936 - but the news of it was superseded by the fact that Edward VIII had abdicated the throne of England and was going into exile in Austria . THERE WERE NOT as many at Nauly as ...
... Nauly . The funeral occurred on Friday , December 11th , 1936 - but the news of it was superseded by the fact that Edward VIII had abdicated the throne of England and was going into exile in Austria . THERE WERE NOT as many at Nauly as ...
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