Writer, sailor, soldier, spy Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
An 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, here is the stunning story of a literary icon's dangerous secret life--including his role as a Soviet agent--that...
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New York, NY :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Awakening: when the sea turned the land inside out
- The writer and the commissar: going to war in Spain
- Returning to Spain: to stay the course
- The bell tolls for the republic: Hemingway bears witness
- The secret file: the NKVD plays its hand
- To spy or not to spy: China and the strain of war
- The crook factory: a secret war on land
- Pilar and the war at sea: a secret agent of my government
- On to Paris: brave as a Saladang
- At the front: the last months of the Great War against fascism
- "The creeps": not war, not peace
- The Cold War: no more brave words
- No room to maneuver: the mature antifascist in Cuba and Ketchum
- Calculating the hidden costs.
