Oddballs and Eccentrics

Description

With tantalising chapter headings like Military Eccentrics, Royal Eccentrics and Hermits, Misers and Misanthropes, some of the names in this pantheon of oddballs are familiar, such as W.C. Fields, Keith Moon and Phil Spector, while others made their names only briefly, purely through bizarre behaviour. Colonel A.D. Wintle, for example, an Army officer who, while in hospital during the War, hobbled over to a recovering Royal Dragoon musician. “Stop dying at once,” ordered Wintle, “and when you get up, get your bloody hair cut.” This paperback edition was published in 2000 and is in good condition.