Forsyth on Biafra

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thanks, Kai, and Rich, it was the MBE. My friend Freddy, wonderful.

Am Di., 21. Jan. 2020 um 16:30 Uhr schrieb rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:

> i think John Lennon returned his OBE because of the war in Biafra
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> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:25 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> wrote:
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> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/21/buried-50-years-britain-shamesful-role-biafran-war-frederick-forsyth
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> > + ... "DEAR TOM GUINZBURG WHEREVER YOU ARE, I THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
> > KNOW I'M NUMBER EIGHT AND MY FRIEND FREDDIE IS NUMBER TWO."/ Pynchon was
> > referring to the fact that Frederick Forsyth's second thriller, THE
> > ODESSA FILE, was No. 2 on the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller list and
> > GRAVITY'S RAINBOW was No. 8 ... +
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> https://books.google.de/books?id=btgXCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT127&lpg=PT127&dq=frederick+forsyth+pynchon&source=bl&ots=XzztUaCr-x&sig=ACfU3U2w-d_zdetjCnDUBZyOPsvwhe1IvA&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB9fPp0ZTnAhVS4aQKHZaLBZQQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=frederick%20forsyth%20pynchon&f=false
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