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 Letter, the disappearance of Colonel Percy Fawcett in Amazonia and the involvement of Winston Churchill in the plot to use British Fascists to combat the rising tide of Communism in England; the role played by the Peaky Blinders in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler; and how and why Wallis Simpson came to be introduced to The Prince of Wales . . . “In the Secret Intelligence Service’s arsenal of loose cannons, few were as useful or as dangerous as Charles Speedicut.” Major General Sir Stewart Menzies “The things that Speedicut did in Berlin make my tales of that city pale into trivial insignificance.” Christopher Isherwood

Book 2 of The Speedicut Memoirs picks up Charles Speedicut’s story from the point in 1918 at which he is about to leave for the Crimea to rescue the Dowager Empress of Russia, a mission which he foresees will be the most dangerous of his life to date. But Fate intervenes and sends him back to the Middle East, where he has a hand in the end of the war in Syria, followed by a series of adventures rescuing members of deposed European royal families that ends, with perfect symmetry, in the Valley of the Kings ... “Speedicut, Lawrence and the Turks: the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.” Field Marshal Viscount Allenby “I am deeply indebted to Charles Speedicut for giving me the idea for Ninotchka.” Ernst Lubitsch “I should have killed Speedicut when I had the chance.” Marguerite, Princess Ali Fahmy

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 and many other historical questions are answered in the memoirs of Colonel Jasper Speedicut. Speaking on behalf of the Faversham family, I can assure you that this book is an appalling travesty of the truth! A E W Mason Judging from this memoir, the British Empire was coloured pink on the map for a very good reason. Alfred Kinsey

Vasilii Kandinsky, whom many consider to be the father of abstract painting, was also a trained ethnographer with an abiding interest in the folklore of Old Russia. In this provocative book, Peg Weiss provides an entirely new interpretation of Kandinsky's art by examining for the first time how this commitment to his ethnic Russian heritage influenced the painter's work throughout his career.