Writer, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961

Reynolds, Nicholas (Nicholas E.), author.

Large Print]} 2017

A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum reveals the untold story of Ernest Hemingway's secret life as a spy for both the Americans and Soviets before and during World War II, and explores how his espionage activities influenced his literary work.

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Espionage, American History 20th century

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

World War, 1939-1945

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ISBN:

9780062644121
0062644122

Edition:

First HarperLuxe edition

Description:

xxix, 549 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Cast of characters
Introduction
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
Epilogue: calculating the hidden costs

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2868232

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