Re: Roland Chambers' Biography of AR


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Posted by Peter H on August 16, 2009 at 21:27:35 user Peter_H.

In Reply to: Roland Chambers' Biography of AR posted by Mike Dennis on August 16, 2009 at 08:14:11:

In fairness to Roland Chambers, I'd like to correct two bad media errors reported on Tarboard recently.

First the statement by Ian Thomson in the Sunday Telegraph (reported by Mike Dennis) that Chambers describes the Russian chapters in AR's autobiography as a "tissue of fabrication". I have read Chambers' book and he says no such thing. What he does say is that one particular episode (AR’s hazardous journey from Reval to Moscow in October 1919) is set down as "near total fiction" in the Autobiography. This is a much less sweeping charge, albeit I think that Chambers has still got it wrong.

And there is also the inference in the BBC Newsnight feature that Chambers has accused AR of being a "bigamist". This is simply not true - Chambers states quite clearly that the Ransomes' divorce decree absolute was obtained in April 1924, and AR and Evgenia married in May 1924. But what can you expect from the BBC these days?


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