Bruce Marshall (born Edinburgh, Scotland,June 24, 1899; died Biot, France,June 18, 1987) was the son of Claude Niven Marshall and Annie Margaret (Bruce) Marshall. He was educated at St. Andrews. He became a Roman Catholic in 1917. He served as a private in the Highland Light Infantry. He was a second lieutenant in WWI in the Royal Irish Fusiliers and King's Royal Rifle Corps, His war injuries resulted in the amputation of one leg. In 1928 he married Mary Pearson Clark (1908-1987). After the war he completed his education in Scotland, became an auditor, and moved to France where he worked in the Paris branch of Peat Marwick Mitchell. He served in WWII as a lieutenant and paymaster in the Royal Army Pay Corps, a captain assisting the French underground, and a major and lieutenant colonel. After the war he returned to France. His 1947 novel Vespers in Vienna was the basis of the 1949 film The Red Danube. His 1953 book, The White Rabbit, recounts the WWII exploits of secret agent F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas. He received the 1959 Wlodimierz Petrzak prize. Edinburgh (pronounced ), Dùn Èideann () in Scottish Gaelic, is the second-largest city in Scotland and its capital city. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... National motto: In tutela nostra Limuria (Limuria is in our charge) Official language English Capital Diego Garcia Largest city Diego Garcia Island Commissioner Tony Crombie Administrator Charles A. Hamilton Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 78 (United Kingdom) 60 km 0 Population  - Total  - Density uninhabited N/Akm GDP  - Total  - GDP/head N... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Highland Light Infantry later the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) was a regiment of the British Army. ... WWI may be an acronym for: World War I World Wrestling Industry This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Kings Royal Rifle Corps was a British Army formation. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, with the skyscrapers of La Défense business district 5 km/ 3 mi behind. ... KPMG is one of the largest professional services firms in the world. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... The Adjutant Generals Corps is one of the largest Corps in the British Army and deals with its most vital resource - its personnel. ... The French Resistance is the name used for resistance movements that fought military occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the Vichy France undemocratic regime during World War II after the government and the high command of France surrendered in 1940. ... Wing Commander Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas, G.C., Croix de Guerre (with palms), Insignia of the Commandeur of the Légion dHonneur, (June 17, 1901 - February 26, 1964) was the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent codenamed The White Rabbit during World War II. His particular sphere of...

Bibliography

• This Sorry Scheme (1924)
• The Stooping Venus; a Novel (1926)
• And There Were Giants ... (1927)
• The Other Mary (1927)
• High Brows, an Extravaganza of Manners—Mostly Bad ... (1929)
• The Little Friend (1929)
• The Rough House, a possibility (1930)
• The Uncertain Glory (1935)
• Luckypenny (1937)
• Children of This Earth (1930)
• Prayer for the Living (1934)
• Canon to Right of Them (1936)
• Father Malachy's Miracle (1938)
• Delilah Upside Down, a Tract, with a Thrill (1941)
• Yellow Tapers for Paris, a Dirge (1943)
• All Glorious Within (1944)
• The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith (1945)
• All Glorious Within (1946)
• George Brown's Schooldays (1946)
• Yellow Tapers for Paris (1946)
• Vespers in Vienna (1947)
• To Every Man a Penny (1949)
• "The Curé of Ars," chapter in Saints for Now, edited by Clare Boothe Luce (1952)
• Introduction to Rue Notre Dame, by Daniel Pezeril (1953)
• The Fair Bride, a Novel (1953)
• The White Rabbit (1953)
• Thoughts of My Cats (1954)
• Only Fade Away (1954)
• Foreword to Top Secret Mission, by madelaine Duke (1955)
• Girl in May (1956)
• The Accounting (UK title: The Bank Audit) (1958)
• Satan and Cardinal Campbell (1959)
• A Thread of Scarlet (1959)
• The Divided Lady (1960)
• A Girl from Lübeck (1962)
• The Month of the Falling Leaves (1963)
• Father Hilary's Holiday (1965)
• The Bishop: a Novel (1970)
• The Black Oxen: a Novel (1972)
• Urban the Ninth (1973)
• Operation Iscariot (1974)
• Marx the First (1975)
• Peter the Second (1976)
• The Yellow Streak (1977)
• A Foot in the Grave (1987)

Clare Boothe Luce photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1933. ...

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, p. 733 (First Revision, 1969)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 36, pp. 835-836 (2000)

External links

• Georgetown Bruce Marshall Papers
• Appreciation by Alessandro Banfi
• Biography in Purvis Family Tree