Life
1919-1983; [Robert Louis Constantine Lee-Dillon Fitzgibbon], b. 8, 1919;
of American m. and Northern Irish f.; Massachusetts, ed. Munich and Sorbonne,
and Exeter Coll., Oxon.; British and US Armies in WWII; taught briefly
in Bermuda; settled in England, then moved to Ireland; MIAL and Irish
citizen; m. Theodora Rosling (celebrated Irish Times cooking
columnist, etc.); divorced; rem. Margorie Fitzgibbon, sculptor; novels
incl. When the Kissing Had to Stop, thriller-fantasy [n.d.]; biog.
of De Valera (1973); High Heroic (1969), a novel on the life of
Michael Collins; also Miss Finnigan’s Fault (1953);
Out of the Lion’s Paw, history (1969); Red Hand, The Ulster
Colony (1971). DIL DIW
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Works
The Arabian Bird (1948); The Iron Hoop (1949); Dear Emily
(1952); The Holiday (1953); The Fair Game (1956); Paradise
Lost and More (1959); Watcher in Florence (1959); When the
Kissing had To Stop (1960); Going to the River (Lon. 1963);
High Heroic (1969); In the Bunker (1973); The Golden
Age (1975); Man in Aspic (1977). Non-fiction, The Life of
Dylan Thomas (1966); London’s Burning [The Blitz]
(new ed. 1970); Red Hand[: The Ulster Colony (Lon. 1971); De
Valera (1973); Secret Intelligence in the 20th Century (1976);
Drink (1979); The Irish in Ireland (1983), also a play,
The Devil at Work (Abbey 1971).
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Notes
British Library lists under "FitzGibbon"), Michael Joseph:
London, 1952. 8o. [42] Panzer leader foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart trans.
10th impression, London: Joseph, 1970. SBN 7181 0800 0, 528pp.: plates
maps, ports. 24 cm. [43] [Le Naïf locataire.] The Innocent Tenant.
Trans., pp.222. Jonathan Cape: London, 1957. 8o. [44] Commandant of Auschwitz.
The autobiography of R. Hoess, etc. (Trans..) [With plates.]. pp.281.
Pan Books: London, 1961. 8o. [45] [Kommandant in Auschwitz.] Commandant
of Auschwitz. The autobiography of R. Hoess, Trans. [with plates.], pp.252.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson: London, [1959.] 8o. [46] Haven’t we met
before somewhere? Germany from the inside and out: by Ronald Searle &
Heinz Huber translated [from the German] [Text by H. Huber, with illustrations
by R. Searle.]. London: Heinemann, 1966. pp.190. 29 cm. [47] Children
of the Ashes, Trans. [With a map.]. pp.308. Penguin Books: Harmondsworth,
1963. 8o. [48] [Strahlen aus der Asche.] Children of the Ashes. The story
of a rebirth, Trans. [On the reconstruction of Hiroshima after the atomic
bomb of 6 August 1945. With plates.]. pp.317. Heinemann: London, 1961.
8o. [49] [Ost minus West=Null.] Are the Russians Ten Feet Tall? Translated
and with an introduction by Constantine Fitzgibbon, Trans. with Sybil
Welch. [With plates and maps.]. pp.420. Thames & Hudson: London, 1961.
8o. [50] The Kersten Memoirs, 1940-1945. With an introduction by H. R.
Trevor-Roper. Translated from the German with James Oliver, pp.314. Hutchinson:
London, 1956. 8o. [51] The Maxims of the Duc de la Rochefoucauld. Trans.,
together with an introduction and bibliographical note. [With a portrait.].
pp.173. Allan Wingate: London, 1957. 8o. [52] [Der geheime Nachrichtendienst
der deutschen Wehrmacht im Kriege.] German Military Intelligence. Trans.
with R. H. Stevens [With plates.]. pp.vii. 209. Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
London, 1954. 8o. [53] [L’Orgue à bouteilles.] The Bottle
Organ, trans., pp.240. Allan Wingate: London, 1952. 8o. [54] [Les Gamins
du roi de Sicile.] Sicily Street, Trans., etc, pp.221. Wingate: London
& New York, 1951. 8o. [55] Operation Cicero, Trans. with Heinrich
Fraenkel, pp.155. Hamilton & Co.: London, 1956. 8o. [56] Operation
Cicero, Trans. with Heinrich Fraenkel, pp.183. News of the World: [London,]
1952. 8o. [57] Operation Cicero, With a postscript by Franz von Papen.
Trans. with Heinrich Fraenkel. [On German espionage in Ankara 1943-44.].
pp.208. Wingate: London, New York, 1950. 8o. [58] Operation Cicero. A
condensation, Trans. with Heinrich Fraenkel. (Decorations by Howard Willard.)
[59] Operation Cicero, etc. [Trans..] [A reissue.] Operation Cicero, etc,
London & New York: Allan Wingate-Baker, 1969. SBN 09 305 050 X pp.190.
21 cm, London: Tandem, 1969. SBN 4260 3754 5 19 cm. [60] Other Men’s
Graves. (Trans..). pp.286. World Distributors: London, 1965. 8o. [61]
[SS.] Other Men’s Graves, Trans., pp.286. World Distributors: London,
1959. 8o. [62] [SS.] Other Men’s Graves, Trans. [An account of the
author’s experiences as a member of the SS in the second world war.].
pp.286. Weidenfeld & Nicolson: London, [1958.] 8o. [63] [Der Barras.]
The Soldier, Trans. [A novel.]. pp.208. Frederick Muller: London, 1954.
8o. [64] [Mein General.] The General, Trans., pp.150. Frederick Muller:
London, 1956. 8o. [65] [Mein General.] The General, etc. (Trans..). pp.159.
Brown, Watson: London Dublin printed, [1958.] 8o. [66] The Soldier, Trans.,
pp.191. Viking Press: London, [1957.] 8o. [67] A Love Affair in Rome.
Trans., pp.157. Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, 1961. 8o. [68] [Un Amore
a Roma.] A Love Affair in Rome, Trans. [A novel.]. pp.158. Chatto &
Windus: London, 1958. 8o. [69] The Little Tour. By G. Playfair and Constantine
Fitz-Gibbon. Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, etc. [With plates.].
pp.x. 222. Cassell & Co.: London, 1954. 8o. [70] [Verwunsches Land
Mexico.] A Land Bewitched Mexico in the shadow of the centuries, Translated
by Constance FitzGibbon. [With plates.]. pp.ix. 239. Putnam: London, 1955.
8o. [71] The Fatal Decisions. With a commentary by, Siegfried Westphal.
[By], Werner Kreipe [and others], etc. (Edited by W. Richardson and S.
Freidin. Trans..) [Accounts of six battles of the Second World War, by
German generals. With maps and portraits.]. pp.xii. 261. Michael Joseph:
London, 1956. 8o. [72] The Fatal Decisions. With a commentary by Lieutenant
General Siegfried Westphal. (Edited by William Richardson and Seymour
Freidin. Trans. from the German . With an introduction by Cyril Falls.
[By Werner Kreipe and others.]. pp.283. World Distributors: London, 1965.
8o. [73] [Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke.] The
Cornet, Translated by Constantine Fitz Gibbon, pp.32. Allan Wingate: London,
1958. 8o. [74] [Der Fragebogen.] The Answers of Ernst von Salomon to the
131 Questions in the Allied Military Government ‘Fragebogen’,
Translated by Constantine FitzGibbon, pp.xii. 546. Putnam: London, 1954.
8o. [75] [Stalingrad, bis zur letzen Patrone.] Stalingrad. Trans. [With
plates.]. pp.263. Michael Joseph: London, 1958. 8o. [76] Stalingrad, Trans.,
pp.316. Pan Books: London, 1960. 8o. [77] [Der verbrannte Dornbusch.]
The Wind and the Flame, Translated from the German by Constantine FitzGibbon,
pp.viii. 416. Wingate: London & New York, 1951. 8o. [78] [Die verlorene
Bucht.] The Lost Bay. Trans., pp.304. Andre Deutsch: London, 1956. 8o.
[79] [Le Talon d’Achille.] The Achilles Heel, Trans. [Essays.]. pp.224.
Andre Deutsch: London Amsterdam printed, 1959. 8o. [80] Than a tear in
the sea, Trans., New York, Tel Aviv: Bergen Belsen Memorial Press of the
World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations, 1967. pp.xxi, 89. 24 cm.,
[81] The Achilles heel, Trans.. (Reissued.]. Port Washington, N.Y., London:
Kennikat Press, 1971. ISBN 0 8046 1420 2 pp.224. 23 cm,, [82] To Dusty
Death, trans. from German, pp.264. Wingate: London & New York, 1952.
8o. [83] [Les Russes.] The Russians, Trans., pp.176. Frederick Muller:
London, 1960. 8o. [84] [Soraya: meine wahre Geschichte.] The Autobiography
of H.I.H. Princess Soraya. Trans. [With plates, including portraits.].
pp.183. Arthur Barker: London, [1963.] 8o. [85] Selected letters of Dylan
Thomas. [Edited by] Constantine Fitzgibbon, London: Dent, 1966. pp.xii,
420. 22 cm. [86] [La Neige en deuil.] The Mountain, Trans., pp.158. W.
H. Allen: London, [1953.] 8o. [87] The Mountain. [Trans..]. pp.158. Viking
Press: London, [1956.] 8o. [88] Dearest Mama, etc. (Trans..). pp.158.
Brown, Watson: London, [1960.] 8o. [89] [Meine schöne Mama.] Dearest
Mama. Trans., pp.159. James Barrie: London, 1956. 8o. [90] Advocate for
the Dead, Trans. with Andrew Foster-Melliar, pp.189. Landsborough Publications:
London, 1959. 8o. [91] [Die Geschichte von Joel Brand.] Advocate for the
Dead. The story of Joel Brand. Trans. with Andrew Foster-Melliar, pp.255.
Andre Deutsch: London, 1958. 8o. [92] After the Flood, Translated from
the German by Constantine FitzGibbon. [A collection of personal stories
of the period from 1945 to 1951 in Europe.]. pp.215. Weidenfeld &
Nicolson: London, 1954. 8o. [93] [Complete Works.] Hallam Edition. (Translated
by Eden and Cedar Paul.). Cassell & Co.: London, 1949-. 8o.; The maxims
of the duc de la Rochefoucauld trans. by Constantine FitzGibbon together
with an introduction and bibliographical note (1974); The life of Dylan
Thomas (1975); Man in aspic (1977); Secret intelligence in the twentieth
century (1978); The golden age (1978); When the kissing had to stop (1978);
The rat report (1980); Drink, foreword by J.N.P. Moore (1980); The Irish
in Ireland (c1983); Secret intelligence in the twentieth century by Constantine
FitzGibbon (1976); To kill Hitler: the officers’ plot, July 1944
(1994). ADD. LISTED UNDER "Fitz Gibbon": The maxims of the duc
de la Rochefoucauld trans. by Constantine FitzGibbon together with an
introduction and bibliographical note (1974); The life of Dylan Thomas
(1975); Man in aspic (1977); Secret intelligence in the twentieth century
(1978); The golden age (1978); When the kissing had to stop (1978); The
rat report (1980); Drink, foreword by J.N.P. Moore (1980); The Irish in
Ireland (c1983); Secret intelligence in the twentieth century by Constantine
FitzGibbon (1976); To kill Hitler: the officers’ plot, July 1944
(1994).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)