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  • The Speedicut Memoirs
    Christopher Joll
    In the last volume of The Speedicut Memoirs,Charles Speedicut relates his involvement, as a member of the SpecialOperations Executive, in many of the highly successful deceptionstrategies masterminded by the cross-dressing Colonel Dudley Clarke,including Operation MINCEMEAT. He also discloses his role in thehigh-profile assassinations of the Protector of Moravia & Bohemia,Reinh...
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  • The Speedicut Memoirs
    Christopher Joll
    As Europe see-saws between war and peace,Charles Speedicut finds himself involved in a seriesof clandestine missions for both the British SecretIntelligence Service and the equally secretive Brotherhoodof the Sons of Thunder. From the concentration camp atDachau, where Book 5 of The Speedicut Memoirs opens, via Whitehall,Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bavaria, Switzerland and France,S...
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  • The Speedicut Memoirs
    Christopher Joll
    In Book 4 of The Speedicut Memoirs, Charles Speedicut finds his fortunes (and misfortunes) tied up with those of the future King Edward VIII, Mr & Mrs Ernest Simpson and Adolf Hitler. In the course of his narrative, Speedicut relates how he was responsible for the murderous Night of the Long Knives, when Hitler ruthlessly purged the Sturmabteilung. He also provides previously ...
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  • The Speedicut Memoirs
    Christopher Joll
    In Book 3 of The Speedicut Memoirs, in addition to meeting many of the early movie stars of Hollywood, readers will discover the true facts about a number of previously unexplained events in the second quarter of the twentieth-century including the reason why Princess Fahmy was cleared of the murder of her husband; the truth about the forging and publishing of the Zinoviev Lett...
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  • The Speedicut Memoirs
    Christopher Joll
    Book 2 of The Speedicut Memoirs picks upCharles Speedicut’s story from the point in 1918 at which heis about to leave for the Crimea to rescue the DowagerEmpress of Russia, a mission which he foresees will be the mostdangerous of his life to date. But Fate intervenes and sendshim back to the Middle East, where he has a hand in the end ofthe war in Syria, followed by a series of...
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  • The Speedicut Memoirs
    Christopher Joll
    Following the death of Colonel Sir Jasper Speedicut in 1915, the Speedicut saga continues with the publication of the memoirs of his son, Charles.It is clear from his hair-raising exploits in pre- and post-revolutionary Russia and in the sands of Arabia, interspersed with adventures in a whole range of other peoples bedrooms, that Charles Speedicut inherited not just his name f...
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  • The Speedicut Papers
    Christopher Joll
    Why did General Gordon remain in Khartoum? What really happened at the Battle of Abu Klea? How and why did King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, actually die? Who was Jack the Ripper? And why was Oscar Wilde provoked into suing Lord Queensberry? For the first time, convincing answers to these a...
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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 6 (1879-1884)
    Christopher Joll
    Book 6 of The Speedicut Papers covers the period 1879-1885 during which time Speedicut is reluctantly involved in a series of British colonial and Imperial disasters in Afghanistan, South Africa, Egypt and the Sudan. Whist not ducking shot, shell and spears, Speedicut indulges deeply in such pleasures (usually of the carnal variety) that are on offer. ...
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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 5 (1871-1879)
    Christopher Joll
    As the subtitle implies, Book 5 of The Speedicut Papers is largely concerned with Speedicuts unsought role as a part-time courtier to Prince Albert Edward, The Prince of Wales, whilst at the same time he tries to track down the traitor in the British establishment. Along the way he witnesses the battle of Isandlwana, is present at Rorkes Drift and is framed for the death of the...
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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 4 (1865-1871)
    Christopher Joll
    Two main storylines run through Book 4 of The Speedicut Papers: Speedicuts quest to identify the traitor within the British establishment, who has already occasioned him considerable personal problems, and his involuntary and often disastrous involvement in the geopolitical affairs of the Emperors of Austria, Mexico and the French and the future Emperor of Germany. Speedicut...
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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 3 (1857-1865)
    Christopher Joll
    Uncivil Wars opens in 1857 and takes the reader through the horrors of the Indian Mutiny to China and the Second Opium War, during which Speedicut is captured and tortured in the notorious Board of Punishments. Back in England, Speedicut remarries and he and his new wife spend their honeymoon in the United States, where they get caught up in the American Civil War – along with ...
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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 2 (1848-1857)
    Christopher Joll
    Book 2 of The Speedicut Papers continues the first hand account of the life, loves and adventures of Jasper Speedicut: charmer, sexual libertine and reluctant hero. It is also a unique account of events in the British Empire and beyond, comprising a series of linked adventures and anecdotes which, when taken together, comprise a fascinating insight into many of the half-remembe...
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  • The Speedicut Papers
    Christopher Joll
    The Speedicut Papers recounts in very frank detail the life, loves, and adventures of Jasper Speedicut?charmer, sexual libertine, reluctant hero, and friend of the self-styled brigadier general Sir Harry Flashman, VC. Comprising a nine-volume series of linked adventures and anecdotes in memoir format, The Speedicut Papers lifts the lid from a veritable cesspit of Victorian and ...
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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 9 (1900-1915)
    Christopher Joll
    In this, the final volume of the memoirs of Jasper Speedicut, the old soldier and courtier is deeply—and often hilariously—involved in the 1900 siege of the Peking legations, the death and funeral of Queen Victoria, the final days of Oscar Wilde, the removal to safety of the personal correspondence of the Dowager Empress of Germany, the sinking of RMS Titanic, the start of the ...
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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 8 (1895-1900)
    Christopher Joll
    Book 8 of The Speedicut Papers is primarily concernedwith Speedicut’s involvement with the young Winston Churchillon the North-West Frontier of India, in the Sudan at the Battle ofOmdurman and in the Second Boer War, during which Speedicut is capturedalong with Churchill. When not acting as nursemaid to Britain’s futuregreatest Prime Minister, Speedicut plays a central role, in...
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  • Muslim Merit-making in Thailand’s Far-South
    Christopher M. Joll
    This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand’s Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani’s oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of Thai and Islamic influences over the last hundred years. The volume describes religious rhetoric related to m...
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