Nine Lives and One

About the Book

"He described escapes and partisan attacks and ritual hangings and midnight assignations with beautiful women in the midst of war "

He survived, he told me, in a Europe, where every corner he turned held the threat of death. But at every turn, luck-and often a woman: there were many women-had stepped in to save him. And when, on occasions, during the years it took to put this story down on paper, I expressed skepticism at an extraordinary coincidence or hair's breath escape, he would produce some scrap of evidence to validate the experience: a tiny prayer book, a faded photograph, a scribbled note. Some men follow Nietzsche's advice to "live dangerously". A few survive

About the Author

John Baxter is a renowned author, lecturer, film historian and commentator for the BBC.

John Baxter moved to Paris from Australia, where he lives with his Parisian wife and small daughter. He is the author of the biographies of Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Federico Fellini, George Lucas and others.