Peddler of Death: Sir Basil Zaharoff by Donald McCormick (.PDF)
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Peddler of Death: The Life and Times of Sir Basil Zaharoff (1965) by Donald McCormick alias Richard Deacon
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Overview: Back in the 1930’s. when journalists and politicians were hunting for scapegoats upon whom to pin responsibility for World War I. Sir Basil Zaharoff enjoyed international renown as the No. 1 “merchant of death.” “the high priest of war.” His role was all the more intriguing because, although he had for half a century been a familiar figure wherever the powerful and fashionable gathered and was the particular friend of Lloyd George, his personal history was thickly shrouded in mystery. Donald McCormick, a British newspaperman … set out to present the same kind of portrait of Zaharoff. Carefully separating the lush legends (that Zaharoff encouraged in his lifetime) from the few documentable facts that survive, he traces the rise of his hero – villain from whorehouse tout in the Greek section of his native Constantinople to Knight of the Bath at the Court of St. James’s. In between he shows Zaharoff guiding tourists through Athens, selling munitions to all sides for Vickers, impressing men and charming women. Today Zaharoff is interest- ing only as a figure out of a departed age when free enterprise prevailed in international relations. In present arms races, Mr. McCormick observes, the governments of the great powers serve their own merchants of death.
The New York Times
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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