Gordon Thomas (Author)

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Gordon Thomas (born February 21, 1933 in Wales ; died March 3, 2017 in Bath , England ) was a British political and investigative journalist and writer : he published 56 books that have been translated into at least 27 languages ​​and a total circulation of over 45 million Copies achieved (as of 2012).

Life

Gordon Thomas' father was a professional soldier in the Royal Air Force , so the family lived in different locations. Thomas attended schools in the United States, South Africa, and Bedford . At the age of seventeen he wrote his first book Descent Into Danger , the content of which is about espionage, a topic that Thomas kept busy from then on. His cousin Dylan Thomas helped him publish the book. In his second novel, Bed of Nails , he drew on experience he had gained over a year as a helper in a fairground ride.

Since the Suez Crisis in 1956, he worked as a foreign reporter in crisis areas of British foreign policy, his last assignment before his retirement was in the First Gulf War . Thomas wrote and produced for the BBC TV magazines Man Alive, Tomorrow's World and Horizon .

Thomas specialized both as a journalist and as a man of letters on the subject of secret services and appeared regularly as an expert in the media on secret service affairs. His book Gideon's Spies: Mossad's Secret Warriors was the basis for a series on Channel Four about the Mossad . The research was supported by the Mossad. Thomas suspected the Mossad of murdering Gerald Bull in 1990.

The 1976 film Reise der Verdammten is based on Thomas 'and Max Morgan-Witts' factual novel Voyage of the Damned (1974) about the odyssey of 937 German-Jewish refugees across the Atlantic, along the North American coast and back to Europe on the Hamburg ship St. Louis in 1939. the 1980 film published the day when the world went down due to Thomas 'and Max Morgan Witts-' novel the day the world ended Their about the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902. in 2002 he published a Robert Maxwell biography . On the basis of unopened files from the Vatican, Thomas wrote a new book in 2012 on the papacy's position on the Holocaust. Thomas' portrayal was criticized as euphemistic.

Thomas lived in Ireland and England with his wife and they raised five children.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1969: The Day their World Ended . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. New York, Stein and Day
    • The cloud of fire . Translation: Alf Lindström . Zurich, Swiss publishing house, 1970
  • 1971: Earthquake . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. New York, Stein and Day
    • Earthquake. The destruction of San Francisco . Translation Ingeborg Schauer. Zug, Bergh, 1975
  • 1972: The strange fate of the Morro Castle . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. New York, Stein and Day
    • The strange fate of Morro Castle . Translation Ingeborg Schauer. Zug, Bergh, 1973
  • 1974: Voyage of the Damned. The Voyage of the St. Luis . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. London, Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-34018-120-1
  • 1975: The day Guernica died . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. New York, Stein and Day
    • The day Guernica died. A tragedy in European history . Translation Günter Panske . Zug, Bergh, 1978
  • 1977: Ruin from the Air. The Enola Gay's Atomic Mission to Hiroshima . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. London, Stein and Day
    • Death over Hiroshima. World history was shaped by a bomb . Translation Günter Panske. Unterägeri (Zug), Bergh in d. Europabuch-AG, 1981
  • 1979: The Day the Bubble Burst. A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. Garden City, NY, Doubleday
  • 1981: trauma. The search for the cause of Legionnaires' disease . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. London, Hamilton
  • 1982: Anatomy of an epidemic . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. Garden City, NY, Doubleday
  • 1983: Pontiff . Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts. Garden City, NY, Doubleday
    • The Vatican: Mechanisms of Church Power . Ingo Angres in Romanian. Zurich, Diana-Verlag, 1984
  • 1986: Desire and Denial: sexuality and vocation - a church in crisis (e-Book 2014: Desire and Denial. Celibacy and the Church ). Gordon Thomas. Boston, Brown Little
  • 1987: The Trial. The Life and Inevitable Crucifixion of Jesus (alternative title: The Jesus conspiracy. The life and crucifixion of Christ ; also: ~ and inevitable crucifixion ~ ; also: The Jesus Conspiracy. An Investigative Reporter's Look at an Extraordinary Life and Death ). Gordon Thomas. London, Bantam Press. ISBN 978-0-593-01141-6
    • The Jesus judgment. Background to a political murder . Translation by Bernd Rullkötter. Zug, friends of books and records, 1991
  • 1989: Journey Into Madness. The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse . Gordon Thomas. London, Bantam Press. ISBN 0-553-05357-4
  • 1990: Enslaved: Investigation into Modern-day Slavery . Gordon Thomas. London, Bantam Press. ISBN 978-0-593-01688-6
  • 1991: Chaos under heaven. The shocking story of China's search for democracy . Gordon Thomas. Secaucus, NJ, Carol Pub. Group
  • 1992: Deadly perfume. An international thriller . Gordon Thomas. New York, HarperCollins
    • Perfume of death. Thriller . Translation by Diethard H. Klein. Rastatt, Hestia, 1992
  • 1998: Magdalene: The Woman Who Loved Jesus . Gordon Thomas. Oxford, Lion. ISBN 978-0-745-93809-7
  • 1999: Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (Alternative title: Gideon's Spies. The Inside Story of Israel's Legendary Secret Service The Mossad ). Gordon Thomas. New York, St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-25284-6
    • The Mossad file. Israel's secret service and its shadow warriors . Translation Hans Binder. Munich, Lichtenberg, 1999
  • 2001: Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America . Gordon Thomas. Dandelion Books. ISBN 1-893-30254-7
  • 2001: Cancer Doctor. The Biography of Josef Issels , MD Gordon Thomas. Dandelion Books. ISBN 978-1-893-30218-1
  • 2002: The Assassination of Robert Maxwell : Israel's Superspy. The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul . Gordon Thomas, Martin Dillon. New York, Carroll and Graf
  • 2008: Secrets and Lies: A History of CIA Mind Control and Germ Warfare . Gordon Thomas. JR Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-906-21772-3
  • 2009: Secret Wars. One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6 (Alternative title: Inside British Intelligence: 100 Years of MI5 and MI6 ). Gordon Thomas. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-37998-8
  • 2012: The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan to Save Jews from the Nazis (Thriller). Gordon Thomas. New York, Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-60421-9
  • 2016: Shadow Warriors. Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE . Gordon Thomas, Greg Lewis. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-445-66144-5
  • The plan. Thriller . Translation of Heinz Zwack. Bergisch Gladbach, Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, 1996. ISBN 978-3-404-12535-7
  • Heart hunter. Thriller . Translation of Heinz Zwack. Bergisch Gladbach, Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, 1997. ISBN 978-3-404-12663-7
  • The poison trail. Thriller . Translation by Michael Kubiak. Bergisch Gladbach, Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, 1998. ISBN 978-3-404-13923-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Thomas: Thomas, Gordon (Author and Journalist). The Daily Telegraph , March 12, 2017, accessed March 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Information in the author description in Shadow Warriors (Hardcover 2017, p. 291).
  3. ↑ Books to Gordon Thomas with language display in WorldCat . Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Biography . Gordon Thomas website, accessed March 14, 2017.
  5. ↑ Jack Fischel: The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan to Save the Jews from the Nazis . Reviewed on the Jewish Book Council website , accessed March 14, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Gordon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British political and investigative journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Wales , UK
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2017
Place of death Bath , South West England , England , United Kingdom