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Tom Bower

    28 settembre 1946

    Tom Bower è un autore britannico rinomato per il suo giornalismo investigativo e le sue biografie non autorizzate. Il suo lavoro si addentra nello svelare verità nascoste e nello scrutinare figure controverse. Lo stile di Bower è caratterizzato da una ricerca approfondita e un approccio diretto, offrendo ai lettori uno sguardo penetrante nelle vite e nelle carriere di individui influenti. I suoi scritti esplorano frequentemente temi di potere, corruzione ed etica negli ambiti del business e dei media.

    Tom Bower
    Heroes of World War II
    Conrad and Lady Black
    Maxwell. The Outsider
    Blood Money
    Tiny Rowland
    Blind Eye to Murder
    • Blind Eye to Murder

      Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany: A Pledge Betrayed

      • 576pagine
      • 21 ore di lettura

      This dispassionate but shocking indictment of the implementation of Allied policy toward war criminals, dispels once & for all the myth that important Nazi crimininals were removed from power.

      Blind Eye to Murder
      5,0
    • Tiny Rowland

      • 659pagine
      • 24 ore di lettura

      An account of the life and career of the entrepreneur, Tiny Rowland, the head of Lonrho and the owner of "The Observer". It is a story of empire-building, unresolved mystery, commercial skulduggery, financial acumen, and confrontations with a succession of governments in Europe, America and Africa.

      Tiny Rowland
      4,4
    • Blood Money

      The Swiss, the Nazis and the Looted Billions

      • 412pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      This work reveals the role played by the Swiss banks and the Swiss government in exploiting World War II and the Holocaust to their financial advantage; a role which included helping the Nazis to hide and sell their loot siezed from occupied Europe, and stealing the deposits made in those banks by Jewish individuals and organizations.

      Blood Money
      4,4
    • Publisher, politician, financier, industrialist, printer and sportsman, Robert Maxwell is a man who has provoked loyalty and loathing as well fascination from those who have witnessed his courage, energy, ambition and business acumen. In writing his biography the author has interviewed over 350 people across the world who have known Maxwell - as a young boy brought up as an orthodox Jew; in the Czech and British armies during the Second World War; in post-war Berlin and in the City of London; in Westminster where he hoped to become a senior minister in Harold Wilson's government; and in New York where his Czech relations live.

      Maxwell. The Outsider
      4,0
    • The riveting tale of how the wanabee aristo Conrad Black and his social-mountaineering wife Barbara gulled their way into the City, the Tory party, Wall Street and High Society. This new paperback edition will be fully updated to include details of Black's high-profile trial for corporate fraud, sure to claim international attention.

      Conrad and Lady Black
      3,0
    • Heroes of World War II

      • 144pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      Celebrating individual men and women who epitomize the courage, fortitude and spirit that enabled Britain and the Allies to triumph in World War II, this book recounts the exploits of more than 100 people - in the fury of battle or alone, and behind the lines.

      Heroes of World War II
      3,5
    • Boris Johnson

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      A Sunday Times Book of the YearA Times Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA Telegraph Book of the Year'EXPLOSIVE...

      Boris Johnson
      3,8
    • Tom Bower, Britain's leading investigative biographer, unpicks the tangled web surrounding the Sussexes and their relationship with the royal family. From courtroom dramas to courtier politics, using extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews from insiders who have never spoken before, this book uncovers an astonishing story of love, betrayal, secrets and revenge.

      Revenge
      3,9
    • Broken Dreams

      Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football - Now Fully Revised & Updated

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      From the author of devastating exposes of Mohamed Fayed, Richard Branson and, most recently, Geoffrey Robinson, this is an incisive account of how self-interested individuals, adopting questionable and predatory business methods, are exploiting the sport of football to earn billions of pounds and huge glory."

      Broken Dreams
      3,6