The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intell – Last Train from Jerusalem

The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 19111943Last Train from Jerusalem\nAuthor(s): Ross Davies\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781835537138, 978-1835537138\nSynopsis\nActor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s and Second World War. Haggard was born in Guatemala City in 1911, the son of a British colonial officer who was a nephew of H. Rider Haggard and his French-Canadian wife. He died in mysterious circumstances in 1943 while serving with British Army Intelligence in the Middle East.\n\n Ross Daviess biography retraces Stephen Haggards brief yet vivid and crowded life and work. From a colonial childhood and education in England, the Haggard story moves on to prewar theatre studies in Munich, stardom on the London and New York stages and from there to .