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Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2012-12-17
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 000743586X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution.
Author: John Lawton
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1555848613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“[Lawton’s] work stands head and shoulders above most other contemporary thrillers, earning those comparisons to Le Carré.” —The Boston Globe The latest novel from the master spy novelist John Lawton follows Inspector Troy, now Scotland Yard’s chief detective, deep into a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair. England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The old guard, shocked by the habits of the war baby youth, sets out to fight back. The battle reaches uncomfortably close to Troy. While he is on medical leave, the Yard brings charges against an acquaintance of his, a hedonistic doctor with a penchant for voyeurism and young women, two of which just happen to be sleeping with a senior man at the Foreign Office as well as a KGB agent. But on the eve of the verdict, a curious double case of suicide drags Troy back into active duty. Beyond bedroom acrobatics, the secret affairs now stretch to double crosses and deals in the halls of power, not to mention murder. It’s all Troy can do to stay afloat in a country immersed in drugs and up to its neck in scandal. “John Lawton is so captivating a storyteller that I’d happily hear him out on any subject.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
Author: Phillip Knightley
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Verslag van een Brits schandaal in 1963, waarbij de politicus John Dennis Profumo (1915- ) en zijn maitresse Christine Keeler (1942- ) betrokken waren en waarvoor de orthopedist Stephen Thomas Ward (1912-1963), die de zaak openbaar maakte als zondebok werd gebruikt.
Author: Alfred Thompson Denning Baron Denning
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Profumo Affair remains the biggest scandal in British politics. The Minister of War was found to be having an affair with a call girl who had associations with a Russian Naval Officer at the height of the Cold War. Lord Dennings report into the scandal deals with questions of cover-up, lies told to Parliament, bribery and stories sold to the newspapers and describes with fascinated revulsion the extraordinary sexual behaviour of the great and the good of the day. Uncovered Editions are historic official papers which have not previously been available in a popular form. This is a facsimile reprint of a report from the archives of the Stationery Office - also known as the Denning Report.
Author: Douglas Thompson
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2014-03-03
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1782199616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history. Following Christine Keeler's death in December 2017, it is now possible to update her book to include revelations that she did not wish to be published in her lifetime. The result is a revised and updated book containing material that has never been officially released, which really does lift the lid on just how far the Establishment will go to protect its own. Published to coincide with the BBC's major new six-part TV drama series, The Trial of Christine Keeler, starring Sophie Cookson as Keeler and James Norton as Stephen Ward
Author: Geoffrey Robertson
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1849547025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the summer of '61 John Profumo, Minister for War, enjoyed a brief affair with Christine Keeler... Late in the afternoon of Wednesday 31 July 1963, Dr Stephen Ward was convicted at the Old Bailey on two counts alleging that he lived on the earnings of a prostitute. He was not in the dock but comatose in hospital. The previous night he had attempted suicide, because (as he said in a note) 'after Marshall's [the judge's] summing up, I've given up all hope'. He died on Saturday 3 August, without regaining consciousness. Many observers of the proceedings thought the convictions did not reflect the evidence and that the trial was unfair, and this book will show that it breached basic standards of justice. Geoffrey Robertson brings his forensic skills and a deeply felt sense of injustice to the case at the heart of the Profumo affair, the notorious scandal that brought down a government.
Author: Anthony Summers
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 1480466980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIVDIVA tour de force account of seduction, power, and betrayal in the biggest political sex scandal of its age/divDIV The Profumo Affair rocked the British establishment like no scandal before or since. The Tory war minister, John Profumo, had taken up with a teenager named Christine Keeler, who was also sleeping with a Soviet intelligence agent. The ensuing inquiry revealed a hidden underworld in which men of the ruling classes and politicians cavorted with prostitutes at orgies. The revelations shook the British government and sent shock waves all the way to the Kennedy White House. The man at the center of the storm was Dr. Stephen Ward./divDIV Ward was a successful doctor to the rich and powerful, a talented artist who drew portraits of many of his famous patients and fixed up prominent men with young women. He was also a pawn, ruthlessly exploited by the intelligence agencies. When the Profumo Affair threatened the government, Ward became a scapegoat, hounded to death—and perhaps murdered./divDIV For the first time, The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward reveals the names that could not be exposed and the truths that could not be told until now./divDIV/div/div
Author: John Lawton
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 161185976X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, the Profumo Affair was the biggest British political scandal of 1963. His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet spy, followed by his lying in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it, forced the resignation of Profumo and damaged the reputation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government. Here, John Lawton explores how the scandal evolved and the effect it had upon the population of an increasingly liberated Britain. Unholy Joy went on to become the basis for a novel. A Little White Death has its roots in the Profumo affair, the correspondences will be apparent to the reader... but the 'buds and leaves' are Lawton's fiction. This kindle edition includes an extract from A Little White Death.
Author: Christopher Hampton
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 057131452X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stephen Ward charts the rise and fall from grace of the man at the centre of the Profumo Scandal. Friend to film stars, spies, models, government ministers and aristocrats, his rise and ultimate disgrace coincided with the increasingly permissive lifestyle of London's elite in the early 1960s. Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, with book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, centres on Ward's involvement with the young and beautiful Christine Keeler, which led to one of the biggest political scandals and most famous trials of the twentieth century. Stephen Ward premiered at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in December 2013.
