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    L'Affaire Valentine

    By David Dixon

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    L'Affaire Valentine tells a fictional story set against a carefully researched background of little known historical facts concerning events in France in the immediate pre-war months of 1939. These include the annexation of INTERPOL by the Nazi's which occurred in 1938 , the secret US government deals to supply France with fighter aircraft, the sabotage and destruction of the most luxurious transAtlantic liner of the interwar years S.S. Paris at Le Havre, and the reported loss of important artworks bound for the New York World Fair in the fire that followed. Even the inaugural flights of the first PanAm transatlantic air routes happened within the exact time frame . Films, events, personalities of the time abound within these pages, and the everyday details of life in the months leading up to the declaration of war are as authentic as can be realised. Set within the world of a US owned Paris based newsreel office, the narrative draws on the author's experience as a scriptwriter working with the last of the newsreel crews
    in London's Fleet Street back in the early 1970's.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Dixon
    Release dateMay 2, 2014
    ISBN9781633159655
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    L'Affaire Valentine
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    David Dixon

    David Dixon was born in 1942 in Middlesbrough, England. After a peripatetic education is different parts of the country ( tough at the time but good experience for a writer) he trained as a painter and silversmith, before leaving to join a technical advertising agency at the age of 22. There followed a career as a copywriter with the J.Walter Thompson and Ted Bates agencies in London until he quit the corporate life to work as a freelance writer in 1976. Radio broadcasting commissions for the BBC followed during the 1980's and '90's alongside a vast range of scriptwriting assignments - including everything from speechwriting to soundtracks for visitor attractions and exhibitions. He has worked in Europe, the Far East and the United States. 'L'Affaire Valentine' blends David's early experience of the aviation industry with film production skills gained in the early 1970's, when he worked alongside the last of the old newsreel veterans, scripting news based TV ads for Fleet Street. Now retired from commercial pressures, David lives with his wife Pamela in the Old Town area of Hastings on the south coast of England. Something of a Francophile he travels to France several times a year and is the author of Tripadvisor reviews appearing under the name of Bleriot.

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