Just so long as it also covers his time in Mandatory Palestine - he’s something of a national hero here in Israel.
Library? Feh. I’m beyond libraries. (In other words, I am an obsessive book freak that probably owns more books than our local library stocks!)
Thank you so much for the recommendations. I’ve ordered The Moonlight War and saved the other two books you mentioned on my wishlist for future purchases.
I first read about him in an old WWII short-stories book that I’ve had since I was a kid. He was definitely a character.
I’d love to see a movie made about the Judean king Josiah. If it’s written true to the Biblical and Midrashic narratives, it makes for a very powerful and tragic story.
Call it 1521. An entire nation of 90 million people would watch it just to see Magellan get hacked to pieces.
Otto Skorzney: “the most dangerous man in Europe”. Not that I’d want to see it, but it would make an interesting story. Amazed the History channel hasn’t done one yet.
Tom Berenger, where are you?
John Hunter, the father of modern surgery.
Have no suggestions for how to make it or who would play who, but he was a fascinating guy I think more people should know about.
Would also (allegedly) have some really great sex scenes with Eva Peron.
I’ve mentioned this before in similar threads, but I think it’s worth repeating: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s life would make for a great biopic, or even a sweeping miniseries.
For a completely wide-open “historical” tragedy someone could do a pic claiming to be about Franklin’s 1845 Northwest Passage expedition. Lost with all hands, and scanty records have been found, any thing horrifying one could imagine as happening would be plausible. I’d think that using Crozier for the view point character would go well, since all I’ve read suggests he was a likable man, and a bit of an outsider from the officers that the RN forced on him and Franklin.
I’d also love to see a pic about Donald “Kirby” Ross, a man who earned the Medal of Honor at Pearl Harbor by fighting to keep the Nevada with power from her turbogenerators. One of the interesting things I’ve found out about him: He got married to his sweetheart on Dec 10, 1945. I suspect this was in response to the attack three days earlier. Among other things it would be easy to make a love triangle involving Ross, his (eventual) wife, and this man, who also earned the Medal of Honor at Pearl Harbor, and died doing it. I have no reason to believe that such a relationship existed in fact, but it would meet the Hollywood need to have some kind of troubled love affair to hang the historical story on. Damn you, Michael Bay.
Hey, I hear you - I like to buy my books too. 
He certainly was a character. Opinions differ - messianic genius, or lunatic? Or a bit of both?
Please let me know what you think of the book …
Another famous autobiography to come out of the war in Burma, albeit not the Chindits, is Quartered Safe Our Here by George MacDonald Fraser. He’s better known for the Flashman series.
What about Wilhelm Canaris? I dunno, I’m on a Nazi kick today. Wait, I see it’s already been done.
A honest HBO miniseries about Andrew Jackson.
Bill James said the best material ever for a baseball movie would be St Louis in the 1880s and Chris von der Ahe.
Xenophon’s “March of the 10,000”
I second the suggestions about Frederick Douglass and the murder of William Desmond Taylor