The Kingdom of The Blind - Oppenheim, E. Phillips
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Hugh Thomson, a surgeon-major, is engaged to Geraldine Conyers. He is ostensibly in command of military hospitals on the French front, but in reality, he is the head of military counter-intelligence. He is on the trail of a German master spy who appears to be able to go across borders and between Germany and England. Captain Granet is a wounded war hero who was recently awarded the DSO and is recovering after being caught and escaping from the Germans twice. He meets Geraldine Conyers and falls in love with her. This novel was first published in 1916, during the early years of World War 1. It…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Hugh Thomson, a surgeon-major, is engaged to Geraldine Conyers. He is ostensibly in command of military hospitals on the French front, but in reality, he is the head of military counter-intelligence. He is on the trail of a German master spy who appears to be able to go across borders and between Germany and England. Captain Granet is a wounded war hero who was recently awarded the DSO and is recovering after being caught and escaping from the Germans twice. He meets Geraldine Conyers and falls in love with her. This novel was first published in 1916, during the early years of World War 1. It relates the thoughts and feelings s of the upper class in London during the early stages of the war with astonishing dexterity.
Autorenporträt
Edward Phillips Oppenheim was an English author who lived from October 22, 1866, to February 3, 1946. He wrote a lot of best-selling genre fiction with glamorous characters, international drama, and fast-paced action. They were popular forms of fun because they were easy to read. In 1927, he was on the cover of Time magazine. Edward Phillips Oppenheim was born in Tottenham, London, on October 22, 1866. His parents were Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and a leather merchant named Edward John Oppenheim. He went to Wyggeston Grammar School until the sixth form in 1883, but had to quit because his family couldn't afford it. For almost twenty years, he worked in his father's business. His father helped pay for the release of his first book, which did just enough to cover its costs. It was under the name "Anthony Partridge" that he released five of his books from 1908 to 1912. To help Oppenheim's writing career, Julien Stevens Ulman (1865-1920), a rich New York leather merchant who liked Oppenheim's books, bought the leather works around 1900 and made him a paid director. He quickly came up with a method that worked and made a name for himself. John Buchan, who was just starting out as a suspense writer, called Oppenheim "my master in fiction" and "the greatest Jewish writer since Isaiah" in 1913.