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Paperback. Condizione: New. This collection presents finest of Rory Kilalea's work: the plays 'Colours' and 'The Diary of David and Ruth', as well as three outstanding short stories. 'Colours' is set in a Zimbabwean graveyard and is a powerful monologue by a woman of her memories, of love's highlights and losses, of the realitie…s of being mixed-race and of the ravages of AIDS/HIV. 'The Diary of Ruth and David' has won a number of international awards and is a two-hander primarily set during the guerilla war that ended white rule in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. David is a sensitive and idealistic young white soldier and his girlfriend Ruth a naive and privileged white girl. Three short stories about Zimbabwe round out the collection: The 'Missing Cow', 'Zimbabwe Boy' and 'That's the Way it Is'. 'That's the Way it Is' is a droll account of filming in Africa. 'The Missing Cow' is a sinister tale set during the transition to black rule and 'Zimbabwe Boy' a touching sexual tale of an older white man and young black man.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Dr Leo Springfield is a disillusioned Labour MP facing a world of trouble both personally and professionally. With his seat (and the government itself) under threat in a looming election, he faces the wrath of his own party and that of the media when 2 million pounds go missing from a charity of which… he is a trustee. Springfield endeavours to track down a vanished co-trustee - a fellow MP - to recover the money and his quest takes him to Italy where matters do not turn out as anticipated. Along the way he must navigate between choleric Whips, a randy policewoman, a nosy journalist, a crooked property magnate, an eccentric Italian private eye and a sometimes wilful Golden retriever, Boothroyd. 'Missing Member' is a shrewd farce of politics, the media, sexual attraction, fraud and grievous bodily harm; and of those in and around the mother of Parliaments.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. In search of adventure, Inspector Guy Pearson joins the Palestine Police Force under the British Mandate. The year is 1938. Both Palestinians and Jews, at war with each other, regard the British as an occupying power. There is widespread civil disturbance. Pearson himself becomes a victim of a bomb an…d is nursed back to health by the native-born Rachel. They become lovers. But their relationship becomes known to the Irgun, the Jewish terrorist organisation. Threats are made against her and her family is blackmailed. When the news of the Holocaust emerges at the end of the war, agitation for greater Jewishimmigration and statehood for Israel sparks new violence. The Palestine Police have to hold the line between competing forces, often at grave risk to themselves. Amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from Palestine and open warfare between Jew and Arab, Guy and Rachel must decide where their destiny lies.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. 'I am writing this for you Saleem. I am writing about us, about how I loved you, and how I killed you.' As Avi Goldberg, the son of a Jewish pioneer, sits at a desk in a dark cell in a military prison in the Negev desert, he fills the long nights writing about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he bef…riended on a beach one scorching July day, and the story of Saleem's family, whose loss of their Ancestral home in 1948 cast a long shadow over their lives. Avi and Saleem understand about the past: they believe it can be buried, reduced to nothing. But then September 2000 comes and war breaks out - endless, unforgiving and filled with loss. And in the midst of the Intifada, which rips their peoples apart, they both learn that war devours everything, that even seemingly insignificant, utterly mundane, things get lost in war and that, sometimes, if you do not speak of these things, they are lost to you forever. Set amongst the white chalk Galilee Mountains and the hostile desert terrain of the Negev Desert, the inbetween people is a story of longing that deals with hatred, forgiveness, and the search for redemption.The haunting poetic tone is not unlike that of Ben Okri's 'The Famished Road', whilst the themes examined are similar to those dealt with by Pat Barker in 'The Ghost Road'. The simplicity of the tone is unflinching throughout, and depicts the eternal search for a home and a sense of place.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. In March 2012, eccentric antiques dealer Raymond Scott was found dead in his prison cell, apparently after having cut his own throat. It was the final tragic act in one of the most bizarre criminal cases ever held in England. The story begins in 1998 after a rare copy of a Shakespeare First Folio was…stolen from Durham University just 10 miles from where Scott lived. For a decade the authorities had been stumped as to what had happened to it until Raymond Scott strolled into the famous Folger Library in Washington DC to have it authenticated for sale. Printed in 1623, the First Folio is widely regarded as the most important non-secular printed book in the English language and one in pristine condition (like the Durham copy had been when stolen) could be worth millions. The flamboyantly-attired Scott had a taste for Ferraris and Lamborghinis yet had spent most of his time living with his aged mother, Hannah, on social security payments in a modest home in Washington, Tyne on Wear. Scott, 55 when he died, wanted the money from selling the First Folio to live the high life with his beautiful 21-year-old Cuban dancer girlfriend he met during frequent trips to Havana.In one of the many strange twists, he claimed he obtained the book from a friend in Cuba who was a former bodyguard to President Fidel Castro. Scott, who never took the stand, was eventually jailed for eight years for handling stolen goods but was cleared of stealing the First Folio. For 18 months, from just after his arrest to his death, Scott conducted a series of interviews with reporter Mike Kelly during which never heard before evidence was revealed including the naming of an alleged second suspect. Even after Scott was jailed they kept in touch via frequent correspondence. Shakespeare and Love reveals the true story behind the theft of the Durham Shakespeare First Folio and uncovers for the first time the man dubbed by the press as 'Bling Lear'.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. From soup and starters through main courses and snacks to biscuits, cakes, puddings and ice-creams, 'No Milk Today' offers more than 75 recipes which will be enjoyed by everyone - and all without the use of milk products. In these easy-to-prepare and delicious meals, cooks can also avoid the inclusion… of citrus and caffeine ingredients should they wish. Some people choose a restricted diet in order to feel more healthy. Others, suffering from food intolerances, need to follow a restricted diet to maintain health. If you have family members, or friends, who suffer from an intolerance to milk products, it can be difficult to cook something different just for them. These recipes are meant to be enjoyed by everyone, including the ever growing number of children with food intolerances. Most of the recipes here are quick and easy to make for everyday meals, whilst others offer ideas for those special occasions. Supermarkets and health food shops are beginning to stock more specialist ingredients suitable for people with food intolerances. By using these and other readily available products, many meals which in the past had to be avoided can now be made easily at home.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Originally published in 1960 by Peter Owen, The Hooligan is a masterful psychological exploration of the making of a Nazi. Andreas Febler, the Head Clerk of the Town Council struggles with his own inadequacies and guilt. He is seduced by the beyond-good-and-evil preachings of the Lumpenhunde (lower-cl…ass ruffians) and eventually becomes the deputy commandant of a concentration camp. Rich in symbolism and written in a unique English style, the novel challenges and compels the reader to profoundly experience the phantasmagorical psyche of Andreas Febler.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. First published in 1941 to considerable acclaim, this is a classic account of the last days of peace in Europe before the outbreak of the Second World War. William Russell was a young American diplomat working at the US Embassy, in Hermann Goering Strasse, during the grim days of 1939 just prior to an…d after Germany's invasion of Poland. He had studied in Germany before joining his country's diplomatic corps, so both his knowledge of history and considerable linguistic skills would enable him to gain a unique experience of one of the most momentous periods in world history. And he does not miss any opportunity to write a totally absorbing account of both the horror and the farce which so often accompanies such epic times. This quite remarkable account deserves to find a whole new readership, revealing as it does, in intimate detail, a time when American diplomacy was forced to handle a Europe fast falling into an abyss of nightmares.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Sam Acquillo is a middle-aged corporate dropout living in his dead parents' ramshackle cottage. He has abandoned friends, family and a big-time career to sit on his porch, drink vodka and stare at the Little Peconic Bay. But when the old lady next door is found dead in her bathtub, Sam is the only one… who wonders why. Despite himself, the ex-engineer and ex-professional boxer finds himself uncovering secrets no one could have imagined. Meanwhile, a procession of quirky characters including a beautiful banker, pot-smoking lawyer and gay billionaire join a full complement of police, thugs and local luminaries intruding on Sam's misanthropic ways. And some are deadly -.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. All Sam wants to do is hammer a few nails into his ramshackle cottage, drink a great deal of vodka, hang out with his dog, Eddie, and stay out of trouble. But trouble seems to find him anyway. When a car bomb outside a trendy waterfront restaurant kills a prominent financial consultant and injures Sam… and his lawyer friend Jackie Swaitkowski, he is drawn into the investigation. Where the police have met roadblocks, Sam makes inroads with his trademark wit, instinct and charm. Also, he just wants to know: Why would someone go to such lengths not only to kill someone, but annihilate them.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. In 1936, as New Year's Eve looms, the first-class passengers on the Queen Mary's voyage to New York gather in the ship's glittering Ballroom to celebrate. German banker, Max Hartmann, however, will not be joining the festivities as he is found in his first-class cabin, dead from a single gunshot wound… to the head. Chief suspect is one Danny Oscar Gamble, ex-soldier, ex-policeman and heroic drinker, currently working his passage as the ship's cocktail pianist. Danny must find a way to clear himself of the charge and as he attempts to do so he navigates amongst the high and low of the ship's 3,000 passengers and crew. Fast paced and with sparkling dialogue, 'Dead Ahead' also contains a cast of truly memorable characters and brilliantly conjures up the lost world of ocean travel in the years before the Second World War. 'Dead Ahead' is the first in a series of works to feature Danny Gamble.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Anne Ibbotson's Coming Slowly delighted readers with the story of her years in Greece and now she remembers her earlier life in Britain in Coming Full Circle. Anne was born in London but was adopted when she was five months old and grew up in a small village in the Peak District of Derbyshire where sh…e was the only child of the local postmaster and his wife. In many ways it was an idyllic childhood, but she was spirited and longed to see the wider world. At nineteen, she journeyed to London to train as a teacher but once there devoted most of her time and energy trying to gain a foothold in the professional theatre. After a succession of temporary jobs, she went to Paris for a weekend but stayed for nearly a year. When Anne returned to Britain, she made her theatrical debut as the back legs of a pantomime cow with the Barrow in Furness Repertory Company and then went on to spend most of her working life in theatre and television.There she met many good and fascinating people - and a few who were neither; there were those who were rich and famous too and sometimes she thought herself to be one of the luckiest people around - but throughout it all she never quite stopped wondering who she really was. It was in Greece, where she was directing the Greek version of Spitting Image for TV, that a chance conversation in a taverna one night with a stranger led to life stories being exchanged. As the taverna closed around them and the stranger stood to walk out of her life forever, he said to her, 'You must write a book about it all.' Her fascinating story is here in Coming Full Circle - A Memoir.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. This is an account of the author's investigation, on behalf of the Canadian government, into the life and ideas of the eccentric genius Nikola Tesla. This is a completely revised and redesigned edition, with a new introduction by the former head of the Tesla Museum, a new chapter and a selection of ph…otographs of Tesla and his work in search of the holy grail of electricity - the transmission of power without loss. As a student in Prague in the 1870s, Tesla "saw" the electric induction motor and patented his discovery, -the first of many inventions whose plans seem to have come to him fully fledged. He worked for the Edison company in Paris before emigrating to the US and battling with Thomas Edison himself to ensure that alternating, rather than direct current, became the standard. He sold his patent in the induction motor for $1 million dollars to George Westinghouse, who used this system for the Niagara Falls Power Project. Moving to Colorado Springs, Tesla worked on resonance, building enormous oscillating towers in experiments which still intrigue today.In later life Tesla became a recluse, bombarding newspapers with eccentric claims, including energy transmissions to other planets. Though he died alone and virtually forgotten, rumours gradually grew that Tesla had made further remarkable discoveries. In an attempt to replicate his experiments, people still build Tesla towers and puzzle over the possible link with low-frequency broadcasts which can supposedly disrupt the weather and affect the human mind.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. In the early 1950s, Colonel Michael Charteris takes command of a battalion of the King's African Rifles during the beginning of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. As the British authorities struggle to create an effective and consistent response to the violent unrest, Michael oversees the difficult task o…f training his British and native troops to become a force that can overcome the jungle tactics of the Mau Mau. Through the Howarths, a British farming family near Mount Kenya, Charteris meets Jane, the governess of the Howarth's daughter, Naomi, and they slowly begin a romance. When Jane and Naomi are abducted by the Mau Mau, Michael's professional and personal worlds collide. 'An African Romance' takes the reader into these turbulent times, when native families were torn apart by conflicting loyalties, when the British Army faced serious questions as to its conduct, and when Independence was in Kenya's futute.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Set in the heady days of the nineteen seventies, this is the hilarioussequel to the highly acclaimed FishingWith Harry - a tale of piscatorial mayhem. Harry is a bluff, no-nonsensecharacter of Huguenot extraction, ex-Army and the War Office, with a ribaldsense of humour and a cleanliness fetish. He is… step-father-in-law to Tony, areluctant accountant brought up as a young Jewish boy in the Essex countryside.An ill-matched pair, the bedrock of their relationship is a shared obsessionfor fishing and a love of the great outdoors. Journeying on the Thames and inland canals in a colourful littlecruiser, then on a narrow boat and later in a weird, paddle-driven contraptionpurchased on a whim, the capacity of this unlikely pair to generate grown-upmischief is taken to new heights, leaving mayhem and mystified onlookers intheir wake. Flood alerts, boat crashes, duckings, near-drownings, rotting food,teeth lost overboard plus eccentric characters met along the way, allinterspersed with the occasional landing of fish, confirm we are back in theuniquely charming and chaotic world inhabited by Tony and the incorrigibleHarry. Welcome aboard.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Set in the heady days of the nineteen seventies, this is the hilarioussequel to the highly acclaimed FishingWith Harry - a tale of piscatorial mayhem. Harry is a bluff, no-nonsensecharacter of Huguenot extraction, ex-Army and the War Office, with a ribaldsense of humour and a cleanliness fetish. He is… step-father-in-law to Tony, areluctant accountant brought up as a young Jewish boy in the Essex countryside.An ill-matched pair, the bedrock of their relationship is a shared obsessionfor fishing and a love of the great outdoors. Journeying on the Thames and inland canals in a colourful littlecruiser, then on a narrow boat and later in a weird, paddle-driven contraptionpurchased on a whim, the capacity of this unlikely pair to generate grown-upmischief is taken to new heights, leaving mayhem and mystified onlookers intheir wake. Flood alerts, boat crashes, duckings, near-drownings, rotting food,teeth lost overboard plus eccentric characters met along the way, allinterspersed with the occasional landing of fish, confirm we are back in theuniquely charming and chaotic world inhabited by Tony and the incorrigibleHarry. Welcome aboard.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Winter came early that year. Freezing fog swept across London, knife-chill choking with cold and dirt, squeezing the hearts out of the dying, the weak-lunged, the old. The antswarm of people moved gropingly through the fog-muddied streets, slowly and painfully as if they were walking through dirty wat…er, hunched and scarved figures coughing sour grey sputum into glove-held handkerchiefs.But in the parks the snow lay on the grass as thick and smooth as cream, ribbed the boughs of trees and with white veins and hung on the weighted-down branches in heavy tresses.'First published 1968, the focus of A. A. T. Davies' ambitious and hard-hitting novel is the relationship between Peter Keevil, disillusioned scholar and connoisseur of the perverse and the futile, and John Morann, sensualist and compulsive seducer. Their live contrast, interlock and are finally centred on a special and violent crime; deliberate, chosen and callous. For Morann this act is revenge the mutilated Anna, whose love had seemed pure and resusitating; for Keevil it provideds the liberation of a self-determined identity, that of the criminal.Their psychological race towards a mutual victim is tense and horrifying, and the result totally unexpected. This is not a 'comfortable' book - Davies transfers the world of cruelty to the more conventional landscapes of London's East End, a Scottish island, and the suburban rugger club belt - and it will undoubtedly shock and disturb many readers. Yet it will shock constructively in the way that Swift, Lawrence and Orwell do, for Davies is a writer whose bitterness of vision is complemented by a profound understanding of, and sympathy for, his characters, insight, humour, and a poet's feeling for words and images.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. In 1912, Stefan Haase, a Rhodes scholar from Germany studying Theology at Oxford, forms a friendship with fellow student James Millward. Stefan soon meets James' sister Beth, a young, feisty and agnostic suffragist, and the two are drawn to each other despite their spiritual and intellectual differenc…es.The three are separated by the war - James in Flanders as an officer in the trenches, Stefan as pastor to a German regiment and Beth as an auxiliary in France. The bonds that they share will be severely tested as each must face the carnage, cost and upheaval of the war and its aftermath.
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Hardback. Condizione: New. The ambitious and flawed John Deed has made many enemies during his career both as a QC and as a judge on the High Court bench. While presiding over a murder trial, Deed comes to suspect that it is a vindictive politician who should be in the dock for the crime. As he investigates this avenue, powerful… people in government conspire to create the opportunity to pull him down once and for all.Deed's persistence in trying to get at the truth brings threats both to him and his on-off lover, Jo Mills QC, and he then finds himself accused of a heinous crime. As circumstantial evidence piles against him, soon there is little help for Deed either from friends or colleagues. At last his enemies see a way of settling old scores and he must face his greatest challenge ever.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. After teaching Classical history at Oxford for a decade, a restless Robert Lambert is approached in the late-1930s by a mysterious figure 'loosely attached to the Foreign Office'. Lambert accepts a mission to Italy to gauge ground-level opinion in the country under the cover of a sabbatical to broaden… his knowledge of archaeology.There he meets Miriam Asher, a professional archaeologist; but Miriam is Jewish and as war approaches and Roger returns to England, Mussolini's racial laws come into force and she and her family are threatened.Roger enlists in the SOE and is sent to Italy as a liaison officer with the Partisans operating behind German lines. There, after a gap of four years, he is re-united with Miriam and their shared danger in the battle against fascist militias brings them ever closer.
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Hardback. Condizione: New. The ambitious and flawed John Deed has made many enemies during his career both as a QC and as a judge on the High Court bench. While presiding over a murder trial, Deed comes to suspect that it is a vindictive politician who should be in the dock for the crime. As he investigates this avenue, powerful… people in government conspire to create the opportunity to pull him down once and for all.Deed's persistence in trying to get at the truth brings threats both to him and his on-off lover, Jo Mills QC, and he then finds himself accused of a heinous crime. As circumstantial evidence piles against him, soon there is little help for Deed either from friends or colleagues. At last his enemies see a way of settling old scores and he must face his greatest challenge ever.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Augustus Young first glimpsed Bras de Vénus at the very end of the 20th century and soon after became a permanent denizen of this charming French town. As a stranger, at first he was an object of curiosity - people made way, shopkeepers smiled, butchers produced choice cuts and young ladies noticed h…im. But soon he was no longer considered a novelty and the town lost interest in him. Isolated by his lack of the language, Augustus resolved to undergo what turned out to be the painful process of acquiring skills to communicate with the locals. He discovered that young ladies smiled because they had good teeth, butchers offered rejected cuts and friendly greetings were a cover for laughing behind his back. And yet he prevailed, and was rewarded along the way with an extraordinary cast of acquaintances, friends and enemies - here all shrewdly brought to literary life.The Forked River Anthology captures, in prose and poem, Augustus Young's journey to embrace and be embraced in a seaside town on the Mediterranean.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. The Egyptian sector of the Red Sea provides scuba divers with their finest opportunity to explore the most outstanding collection of shipwrecks found anywhere in the world. This newly revised edition of "Shipwrecks from the Egyptian Red Sea" explores nineteen of the most important and diveable shipwre…cks many of which have not appeared before in any book. Additionally, there is a wealth of detail about many of the minor wrecks and a comprehensive list of more than 250 sunken ships in the area. Lavishly illustrated with both historic and up-to-date underwater photographs, each of the most important wrecks is rendered with the highest accuracy by eminent marine-artist Rico Oldfield. The product of nine years of research "Shipwrecks from the Egyptian Red Sea" brings to both scuba divers and shipwreck enthusiasts the most comprehensive, accurate and definitive work available.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. The Egyptian sector of the Red Sea provides scuba divers with their finest opportunity to explore the most outstanding collection of shipwrecks found anywhere in the world. This newly revised edition of "Shipwrecks from the Egyptian Red Sea" explores nineteen of the most important and diveable shipwre…cks many of which have not appeared before in any book. Additionally, there is a wealth of detail about many of the minor wrecks and a comprehensive list of more than 250 sunken ships in the area. Lavishly illustrated with both historic and up-to-date underwater photographs, each of the most important wrecks is rendered with the highest accuracy by eminent marine-artist Rico Oldfield. The product of nine years of research "Shipwrecks from the Egyptian Red Sea" brings to both scuba divers and shipwreck enthusiasts the most comprehensive, accurate and definitive work available.
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EUR 23,16
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Paperback. Condizione: New. New. This outstanding and greatly neglected novel of the war, revolution, civil war and early Bolshevik rule first appeared in English in 1930 under the title Quiet Street.At the story's centre is a family, Grandfather (an ornithologist), grandmother and grandchild living in a corner house in Sivtsey…Vrazhek and it is through their experiences and those of their circle that we glimpse the surrounding momentous events. It was not the author's intention to fashion an abstract historical sweep but rather to focus on the experiences of individuals (and even some of those from the animal kingdom). For Osorgin, nature is a more powerful force in life than the solipsistic beliefs of humankind.At the heart of 'A Corner House in Moscow' is the portrait of the coming-of-age granddaughter, Tanyusha, and her development as an individual in spite of the surrounding chaos. Indeed, a host of memorable characters grace the novel including Stolnikov, the young university graduate who volunteers in 1914, becomes an officer and wins the St George Cross but ultimately loses both his arms and legs to an artillery shell. In the hospital he became known as 'the trunk'. 'The doctors said: "A miracle. Just look at him. There's nature for you."' Written in very short chapters, the wealth of the novel is in the vignettes of individuals and incidences. Cumulatively, they combine to affirm life over death and individuals over ideology.
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EUR 23,80
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Mention female spies, and most people think of Mata Hari. But during the Roaring Twenties, Marguerite Harrison and Stan Harding were the cause celebre: two beautiful, accomplished women whose names were splashed across newspapers around the world. Almost a century later, it is easy to understand the f…ascination with these two remarkable women. Marguerite was a highly respectable and recently widowed American journalist and socialite from Baltimore; Stan was a runaway, a bohemian artist and dancer of British heritage who left her wealthy, religious family to make a life for herself in the expatriate community in Florence. The two women were very different, yet both were strong-willed, independent and highly ambitious women unafraid of taking risks. And both, as the Great War ended and Central Europe dissolved into violent chaos, were looking for adventure. Their paths first crossed in war-ravaged Berlin during the Armistice and the the Spartacist Uprising in 1919. Fellow travellers, they became friends and, the evidence suggests, lovers. Dodging bullets and interviewing colourful characters in war-torn Europe led these intrepid women, separately, to Bolshevik Russia, a country closed to outsiders since the October Revolution of 1917. Their fateful meeting had repercussions that spanned three decades, involving heads of state and politicians in Britain, the United States and Soviet Russia. The Lady is a Spy tells their forgotten story: that of two women who, far in advance of their time, worked as foreign correspondents, who operated as spies in dangerous shadowlands of international politics, and who were both imprisoned in Lubyanka, one of the most desperate places on earth. Their lives are reconstructed through numerous primary sources, not only the poems, diaries and letters of their friends and lovers, but also government documents (including newly declassified US State Department papers) that reveal the truth about their espionage careers and - in one case - evidence of a shocking betrayal.
