![]() ![]() The fruits of much labour by Andrew Boyle in his book Poor Dear Brendan (Hutchinson, 1974) and Charles Lysaght's Brendan Bracken (Allen Lane, 1979) have given us a broad outline of his early, and public, life but much will remain hidden forever. His devotion to Winston Churchill even led some to believe that he was Winston's illegitimate son. ![]() Rumours about Brendan Bracken abounded – many cultivated by the man himself in the sense that he refused to deny them. Even his close friend Lord Beaverbrook had to send out a team of reporters to Eire to discover just a smattering of information about his Irish origin. In his lifetime he revealed nothing of his origins and, at his behest, all his personal papers were destroyed on his death. Brendan Bracken may have been founding father of History Today, in the launch of which I played a part, albeit a small one, but if history is the science of unravelling and recording the truth about the past, he did his best to ensure that as little as possible of his own life should he recorded. ![]()
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