The Amazing Story of Lise Meitner Synopsis The book describes how Lisa Meitner, of Jewish heritage, found herself working as a physicist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin when the Nazis came to power in 1933; how she was hounded out of the country and forced to relocate to...
Mugabe: Monarch Of Blood And Tears
Mugabe: Synopsis During my teenage years spent in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s, Robert Mugabe was a relatively unknown teacher. I subsequently discovered from his former secretary, that as President of Zimbabwe (as the country became) and contrary to his what his image proclaims, he was capable of great kindness...
T.E. Lawrence: The Enigma Explained
T.E. Lawrence: Synopsis Soldier and writer, T. E. Lawrence, the famous ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ remains an enigma to this day. Particularly baffling, is why someone who became a legend in his own lifetime with his exploits in Arabia during the First World War, subsequently chose to join the lower ranks...
Lawrence of Arabia’s Clouds Hill
Lawrence of Arabia’s Synopsis Clouds Hill is a humble cottage in the heart of Dorset which once belonged to a woodman and, from 1923 was occupied by T. E. Lawrence. The cottage, which Lawrence described as ‘an earthly paradise’, is situated not far from his workplace, the army camp at...
Hitler’s Insanity: A Conspiracy of Silence
Hitler's Insanity: Synopsis Adolf Hitler was a paranoid schizophrenic, driven by command hallucinations which controlled his thoughts and deeds. But the question is, did any of his henchmen realise he was ‘mad’? English writer, Dr Samuel Johnson once said, ‘When a man knows he is to be hanged in a...
Jane Austen: Love is Like a Rose
Jane Austen: Synopsis If Jane Austen’s novels reflected her attitude to real life, as seems likely to be the case, then she evidently detested the pride and prejudice of those who considered themselves to be superior to others. And in her novels, she made it her business to ridicule such...
Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait
Agatha Christie: Synopsis Agatha Christie was, and is, the world’s most successful detective novelist. Yet, her own life was steeped in sadness: clues to the cause of which may be discovered in her writings. In Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait, Dr Andrew Norman delves deep into the crime writer’s past...
Mugabe: Teacher, Revolutionary, Tyrant
Mugabe: Synopsis Mugabe has been described as evil, a tyrant, and a monster. Yet, he is a person of academic distinction with a keen sense of humour. How can these seemingly opposed character traits exist in one and the same person? An explanation is offered. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, a former...
The Story of George Loveless and the Tolpuddle Martyrs
The Story of George Loveless and the Tolpuddle Martyrs Synopsis Dorset folk and millions worldwide are familiar with the story of the six men from the village of Tolpuddle, the so-called ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’, who in the year 1834 were persecuted by the authorities and driven out of their native land...
Jane Austen: An Unrequited Love
Jane Austen: Synopsis Jane Austen, in her novels, writes of love and romance. But to what extent did they feature in her own life; and what were her own hopes and desires, and were they in any way fulfilled? Jane Austen is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in...