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Peter Moreira - Hemingway on the China Front - 9781574888829 - V9781574888829
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Hemingway on the China Front

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Description for Hemingway on the China Front paperback. This is the first book to track Ernest Hemingway's progress as a spy in Asia during the war, defining his duties as he saw fit. Author Peter Moreira follows Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn as they seek stories to file - and try to adapt to each other's strong egos - in dangerous, uncomfortable, exotic places in the throes of war. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; BGL; HBJF; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941. The husband-and-wife team of celebrity literati intended to report on the China-Japan war while honeymooning in the romantic Far East. What they found was a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of dictators and drunks, scoundrels and socialites, heroes and halfwits. And their trip proved to be the beginning of the end of their marriage.When the U.S. Treasury Department hired Ernest Hemingway as a spy in China in 1941, it awakened a new obsession in America’s most ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781574888829
SKU
V9781574888829
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Peter Moreira
Peter Moreira has been a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong and South Korea for the South China Morning Post and Knight-Ridder. He is now a senior writer for the New York–based weekly The Deal. He lives in Nova Scotia.

Reviews for Hemingway on the China Front
"Full of new information and fascinating details, Peter Moreira's book is proof that even the best-explored subjects can yield fresh interpretations and insights."—Caroline Moorehead, author of Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life "Picking a celebrated author as a spy to gain privileged access to a secretive, duplicitous foreign leader displayed imaginative thinking of the type used by the OSS and CIA in ... Read more

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