Leonard Mosley Explained
Leonard Mosley |
Birth Date: | 11 February 1913 |
Birth Place: | Manchester, England, UK |
Death Date: | June 1992 |
Occupation: | Journalist, biographer |
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Leonard Oswald Mosley (11 February 1913 – June 1992)[1] was a British journalist, historian, biographer and novelist. His works include five novels and biographies of General George Marshall, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Orde Wingate, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh, Du Pont family, Eleanor Dulles, Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles and Darryl F. Zanuck. He also worked as 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 Leonard Cyril Mosley and Annie Althea Mosley née Glaiser.[2] He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School.[3] At the age of seventeen he started work as a reporter for the Telegraph, a weekly paper, since defunct, which circulated in South Lancashire and North Cheshire. After a year working there he lost his job as a result of an ill-timed practical joke, and then spent six months as a freelance, living in his parental home in Didsbury.[4] During the summer of 1931 he left England and made his way to America.[5]
In New York he spent three months as an Assistant Stage Manager for a burlesque show, then for half a year worked as a journalist for the New York Daily Mirror.[6] In May 1932 he left the East Coast and drove to California in an old Ford Model T.[7] He arrived in Los Angeles just in time for the 1932 Summer Olympics, which he covered as an employee of United Press. He subsequently worked as a freelance journalist in Hollywood. He reported on the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, returning to England shortly afterwards.[8]
He found employment as a roving reporter, a job that took him all over the world. One early assignment which brought him back to the United States and made a great impression on him was the trial of Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping.[9] Many years later he would write a biography of Lindbergh.
Books
- Book: So I Killed Her . Michael Joseph Ltd.. 1936 .
- Book: No More Remains . Michael Joseph Ltd.. 1936 .
- Book: So Far So Good : An Autobiography. Michael Joseph Ltd.. 1937 . 5072478.
- Book: War Lord . Michael Joseph Ltd.. 1938 .
- Book: Down Stream: the Uncensored Story of 1936–1939 . Michael Joseph Ltd.. 1939 . - published in US as Europe Down-Stream
- Book: Parachutes Over Holland . Cherry Tree. 1940 .
- Book: Report from Germany. registration. Gollancz . Left Book Club. 1945 . 1489740.
- Book: They Can't Hang Me. - in 1955 made into the film They Can't Hang Me
- Book: Gideon Goes to War: A Biography of Orde Wingate. Arthur Barker Ltd.. 1955 . 3465327.
- Book: Castlerosse. Arthur Barker Ltd.. 1956 . - about Valentine Browne, 6th Earl of Kenmare
- Book: The Cat and the Mice. registration. Arthur Barker Ltd.. 1958 . 3494629. - the story of John Eppler, later made into the film Foxhole in Cairo
- Book: The Seductive Mirror. Arthur Barker Ltd.. 1958.
- Book: Curzon
The End of an Epoch
. Longmans, Green, and Co., London. 1960. (Published in United States as The Glorious Fault: The Life of Lord Curzon).
- Book: The Last Days of the British Raj . Weidenfeld and Nicolson . 1961 . 411013.
- Book: . Weidenfeld & Nicolson . 1962.
- Book: Duel for Kilimanjaro: An Account of the East African Campaign 1914–1918 . Weidenfeld & Nicolson . 1963 . 298513665 .
- Book: Haile Selassie: The Conquering Lion . Weidenfeld and Nicolson . 1964 . 45666880.
- Book: (with Robert Haswell). The Royals . Frewin. 1966.
- Book: Hirohito
Emperor of Japan
. 1966 . Prentice Hall / Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 406462.
- Book: On Borrowed Time: How World War Two Began. registration. Weidenfeld and Nicolson . 1968 . 9780297178156. 12555.
- Book: Battle of Britain: The Making of a Film. Stein and Day. 1969. 0812812395. 27307.
- Book: Backs to the Wall;: The Heroic Story of the People of London during World War II . Weidenfeld and Nicolson . 1971 . 0394460804 . registration .
- Book: Marshall, Hero for Our Times. Hearst Books . 1972 . 8219365 . - about George Marshall; published in US as Marshall: Organizer of Victory (but not to be confused with the book of identical title by Forrest C. Pogue)
- Book: Power Play : The Tumultuous World of Middle East Oil, 1890–1973 . Weidenfeld and Nicolson . 1973 . 539719.
- Book: The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering. Weidenfeld and Nicolson . 1974. 748995702.
- Book: Lindbergh: A Biography . Doubleday. 1976. 0385095783. 2034813 . - Biography of Charles Lindbergh
- Book: Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen, and John Foster Dulles and their Family Network . Hodder & Stoughton . 1978 . 080371744X . 3543239 . registration .
- Book: Blood Relations: The Rise and Fall of the Du Ponts of Delaware . registration . Atheneum . 1980 . 0689110553 . 5800214.
- Book: The Druid: The Nazi Spy Who Double-Crossed The Double-Cross System . Atheneum . 1981 . 0413402800.
- Book: Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Last Tycoon . HarperCollins . 1984.
- Book: Disney's World : A Biography . Scarborough House . 1985. 9781589796560 . 12163226 . - published in UK as The Real Walt Disney
Honours
External links
- http://www.librarything.com/author/mosleyleonard
Notes and References
- Web site: Leonard Mosley. BFI. 29 November 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20121022075635/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/84835. 22 October 2012. dead.
- https://www.myheritage.com/names/leonard_mosley myheritage.com
- News: Sarasota Herald Tribune. 7 February 1982. Literary Luncheon Featuring Three Prominent Authors.
- So Far So Good chapter 3
- So Far So Good chapters 1, 2
- So Far So Good chapter 4
- So Far So Good chapter 5
- So Far So Good chapter 6
- So Far So Good chapter 7
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37624/supplement/3213 London Gazette 2nd supplement 21 June 1946
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/43367/page/5542 London Gazette 26 June 1964