Recognized as one of the best books of 2022 by New Yorker, this title captivates readers with its engaging narrative and thought-provoking themes. The story delves into complex characters and their intertwined lives, exploring profound emotional landscapes and societal issues. With a unique perspective and rich prose, it challenges readers to reflect on their own experiences and the world around them, making it a compelling addition to contemporary literature.
Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Exploring the hidden facets of Ernest Hemingway's life, this book delves into his involvement in espionage during tumultuous times. It uncovers his complex character, revealing a man who balanced literary fame with perilous undercover activities. Through meticulous research, the narrative highlights how his experiences in war and intelligence shaped his writing and personal relationships. The account not only sheds light on Hemingway's secretive endeavors but also presents a gripping portrait of a literary icon as a clandestine operative.
Historian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds, the New York Times bestselling author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, uncovers the definitive history of American intelligence during World War II, illuminating its key role in securing victory. The entire vast modern American intelligence system--the amalgam of three-letter spy services of many stripes--can be traced back to the dire straits that Britain faced at the end of June 1940. Before World War II, the US had no organization to recruit spies and steal secrets or launch secret campaigns against enemies overseas. It was only through Winston Churchill's determination to mobilize the US to help in their fight against Hitler that the first American spy service was born, one that was built by scratch in the background of WWII. In Need to Know, former CIA analyst and trained historian Nicholas Reynolds explores the birth, infancy, and adolescence of modern American intelligence. In this first definitive account, Reynolds combines little-known history and gripping spy stories to analyze the American codebreakers' and spies' origins and contributions to Allied victory, revealing how they laid the foundation for the Cold War--and all other conflicts to come.
A riviting international cloak-and-dagger epic ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the liberation of Western Europe, wartime China, the Red Scare of Cold War America, and the Cuban Revolution, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures in espionage and intelligence during the 1930s and 1940s …
SZOKUJĄCE, NIEZNANE FAKTY Z ŻYCIA ERNESTA HEMINGWAYA, LAUREATA LITERACKIEJ NAGRODY NOBLA, KTÓRY SZPIEGOWAŁ DLA AMERYKANÓW I SOWIETÓW W PRZEDEDNIU I PODCZAS II WOJNY ŚWIATOWEJ. Wielki pisarz i interesujący człowiek. Żołnierz w I wojnie światowej. Żeglarz, który w barach Hawany tłumił drinkami depresję, a gdy już przytłumił dostatecznie, szedł do portu, aby odcumować łódź i wypłynąć na morze. Tyle wiedzieliśmy, ale że był szpiegiem? I że szpiegował zarówno dla Amerykanów, jak i dla Rosjan? Jak to się stało, że został sympatykiem rewolucyjnej lewicy? Do czego doprowadziły jego spotkania z chińskim premierem? Kiedy podjął współpracę z wywiadem sowieckim i został agentem Argo?