The Glenn Miller Conspiracy: The never-before-told true story of his life and death
Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 07:46PM By Hunton Downs, Lt. Col. US Army, Ret.
Asheville, NC, March 12, 2009 - If you’re old enough to recognize the name Glenn Miller, it might take you back to your grandparents gliding across the living room floor to one of this Big Band giant’s trademark tunes, like “In the Mood” or “String of Pearls.” You might even remember reading about the death of this swing era icon - as big in his time as Elvis or the Beatles were in theirs — stories of when his plane went down over the English Channel during World War II, on the eve of the Battle of the Bulge.
Theories abound about what really happened that night.facts, as presented, didn’t add up,
reports went missing, a variety of stories surfaced.but author Hunton Downs, Lt. Col., US
Army, Ret., who has spent more than 60 years putting together pieces of this puzzle, offers the
most definitive - and fascinating - account of this mysterious disappearance in his new book, The
Glenn Miller Conspiracy: The Never-Before-Told True Story of his Life - and Death.
Through U.S., British and German secret documents accessed in his military work, and through
information that has since been de-classified, award-winning journalist Downs pieced together,
bit by bit, the amazing story of Miller’s work for the U.S. Psychological Warfare Division and his
subsequent role as a secret envoy for General Dwight Eisenhower in Ike’s attempt to end the war
as early as possible. Adhering to strict guidelines of journalistic reporting, Downs provides
overwhelming proof - including scores of official documents, critically appraised literary
sources, trustworthy oral sources and his own keen observation - to solve this mystery after more
than half a century, revealing that Miller actually died at the hands of Nazi
assassins seeking to kill Eisenhower. The resulting cover-up is as interesting as the events
themselves.
History buffs, conspiracy theorists, biography fans and aficionados of the music of the era will be
drawn equally to this book.
About the book:
The Glenn Miller Conspiracy: The Never-Before-Told True Story of his Life - and Death.
by Hunton Downs
ISBN: 978-0977913169
Publisher: Creative Book Publishers International
Date of publish: April 30, 2009
Pages: 271
S.R.P.: $17.95
About the author:
Hunton Downs served on General Omar Bradley’s personal staff as well with General
David Sarnoff (founder of NBC), winning numerous citations from the War Department during
World War II. Later, as a post-war journalist, he received a prestigious Edward R. Murrow
citation for his broadcasts from the Berlin Wall and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his
reporting from Vietnam. Downs lives in Asheville, NC in the Blue Ridge Mountains where he
grew up as a boy. This is his fifth book.
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