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Few people are aware that Dennis Wheatley, in his day one of the biggest selling novelists in the world, spent the Second World War as a member of Winston Churchill's Joint Planning Staff. Wheatley's job was to confuse the enemy by writing 'plausible, official documents' and to feed them to the Nazis. Here is that little known and intriguing story, drawn on previously unpublished restricted papers - and with a foreword by one of today's best-selling authors.
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relights the homefires,
By Robert "Rob" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dennis Wheatley: Churchill's Storyteller (Hardcover)
Including some previously unreleased and previously released (but long out of print) information, this book puts Dennis Wheatley's war efforts back on the map and explains to a whole new generation the tenacity of our forefathers when faced against such an evil foe. Every home should own this book. It will teach the grandchildren much. Most excellent.
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A Desperate Chance,
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This review is from: Dennis Wheatley: Churchill's Storyteller (Hardcover)
As a boy I read many of the novels of Dennis Wheatley, always knowing I was poisoning my brain by doing so. His novels of th occult like THE DEVIL RIDES OUT were like exquisite embroideries of sin and pulp, and the adventures of his super-agent Gregory Sallust showed who really won the war--the socially conservative. Yet he was a master storyteller and there was something for every taste. Here in the USA his books were a little hard to get, Bantam published a few of the spooky ones, others came to me through kindly relatives from overseas, and often they could be found in the dumpsters outside the British Airways terminals at JFK, hardened immigrants getting rid of the bilge before beginning new American lives in which Wheatley would be distinctly a back number.
Haven't thought of him in years, but stumbling across a copy of Craid Cabell's exciting new book is like stumbling straight into a gold mine. I don't know how he did it, but Cabell managed to read about 1,000,000 words (he estimates) of unpublished material by Dennis Wheatley, and condenses and edits a lot of it to present in this volume. I took it by the title and subtitle that this was to be a biography of the novelist. Alas no, it is severely limited to a few years in which his services as an "imagineer" were persuaded to flow in Churchill's war cabinet, when, like most Englishmen, Wheatley sincerely believed that a Nazi invasion was right around the corner and that only the most desperate remedies would be any good in stopping it. I never knew that it was Wheatley who thought up some of the most amazing counterintelligence operations of WWII, including the stunts later publicized as "I was Monty's Double" and Clifton Webb in THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS. He kept his genius under wraps for the benefit of his country. It would be like if the USA hired Stephen King to divert the attention of an invading force by the sheer power of his imagination. Cabell himself, who provides lengthy notes and asides, is sort of incapable of writing a coherent passage, and the vaunted foreword by spy king Frederick Forsyth doesn't say very much except that he once had lunch with Wheatley when he was young and the Wheat was old. But you'll buy it anyway just for the gold. |
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