July 28, 2023

The Mysterious Mister ZedZed

32 minutes

This week on Tales we return to Infernal Machines and a shadowy merchant of death who sold them - a man who built a great fortune on the death and suffering of millions. What can we actually say on the life of the mysterious Sir Basil Zaharoff?

Sources this week include:

Man of Arms; The Life and Legend of Sir Basil Zaharoff by Anthony Allfrey

This Time Magazine Article

This Library of Congress article on J.P. Holland

This Cecil Bloom article in Liberal History

And Mike Dash’s The Mysterious Mr ZedZed; the Wickedest Man in the World.

I’ve got another dozen or so articles to share on Ottoman ‘firefighters’ and submarines that I’ll get up tomorrow.

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Though I made a quick arrangement of ‘My Grandfather’s Clock’ (Henry Clay Work) this episode.

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