Author: Jim Riordan
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007283148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The true and remarkable story of the English double agent who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow.
Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak
Author: Jim Riordan
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007283148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The true and remarkable story of the English double agent who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007283148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The true and remarkable story of the English double agent who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow.
Blood and Gifts
Author: J. T. Rogers
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466841834
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful. It's 1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afghanistan, CIA operative Jim Warnock is sent to try to halt its bloody progress, beginning a secret spy war behind the official hostilities. Jim and his counterparts in the KGB and the British and Pakistani secret services wrestle with ever-shifting personal and political loyalties. With the outcome of the entire Cold War at stake, Jim and a larger-than-life Afghan warlord decide to place their trust in each other. Spanning a decade and playing out in Washington, D.C., Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Blood and Gifts is a sweeping, often shockingly funny epic set against one of the greatest historical events of recent history, the repercussions of which continue to shape our world.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466841834
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful. It's 1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afghanistan, CIA operative Jim Warnock is sent to try to halt its bloody progress, beginning a secret spy war behind the official hostilities. Jim and his counterparts in the KGB and the British and Pakistani secret services wrestle with ever-shifting personal and political loyalties. With the outcome of the entire Cold War at stake, Jim and a larger-than-life Afghan warlord decide to place their trust in each other. Spanning a decade and playing out in Washington, D.C., Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Blood and Gifts is a sweeping, often shockingly funny epic set against one of the greatest historical events of recent history, the repercussions of which continue to shape our world.
Comrade Jim
Author: James Riordan
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780007251148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The true and remarkable story of the English spy who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780007251148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The true and remarkable story of the English spy who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow.
Home and Country
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Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Opportunity
Author:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Long Winter Ends
Author: Newton George Thomas
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814327623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A reprint of the 1941 novel by Newton G. Thomas, The Long Winter Ends tells the story of a year in the life of a young emigrant miner who leaves Cornwall in the southwest of England to work in the copper mines of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through Jim's story, The Long Winter Ends offers a glimpse into the lives of an often neglected emigrant group that played an important role in the development of the Great Lake and American mining industries since the 1840s. Drawing on his own experiences as a young Cornish immigrant in the mining communities of the Upper Peninsula, Thomas incorporated firsthand knowledge of the work routines and vocabulary of underground mining into this novel. With an introduction providing information about the cultural history of the Cornish, this narrative traces the Cornish emigrant experience from the failure of the mines in Cornwall, their hopes to preserve Cornish traditions in America, and then finally the acceptance of a future in America.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814327623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A reprint of the 1941 novel by Newton G. Thomas, The Long Winter Ends tells the story of a year in the life of a young emigrant miner who leaves Cornwall in the southwest of England to work in the copper mines of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through Jim's story, The Long Winter Ends offers a glimpse into the lives of an often neglected emigrant group that played an important role in the development of the Great Lake and American mining industries since the 1840s. Drawing on his own experiences as a young Cornish immigrant in the mining communities of the Upper Peninsula, Thomas incorporated firsthand knowledge of the work routines and vocabulary of underground mining into this novel. With an introduction providing information about the cultural history of the Cornish, this narrative traces the Cornish emigrant experience from the failure of the mines in Cornwall, their hopes to preserve Cornish traditions in America, and then finally the acceptance of a future in America.
The Yid
Author: Paul Goldberg
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250079039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Moscow, February 1953. A week before Stalin's death, his final pogrom, "one that would forever rid the Motherland of the vermin," is in full swing. Three government goons arrive in the middle of the night to arrest Solomon Shimonovich Levinson, an actor from the defunct State Jewish Theater. But Levinson, though an old man, is a veteran of past wars, and his shocking response to the intruders sets in motion a series of events both zany and deadly as he proceeds to assemble a ragtag group to help him enact a mad-brilliant plot: the assassination of a tyrant. Levinson's cast of unlikely heroes includes Aleksandr Kogan, a machine-gunner in Levinson's Red Army band who has since become one of Moscow's premier surgeons; Frederick Lewis, an African American who came to the USSR to build smelters and stayed to work as an engineer, learning Russian, Esperanto, and Yiddish; and Kima Petrova, an enigmatic young woman with a score to settle. While the setting is Soviet Russia, the backdrop is Shakespeare: A mad king has a diabolical plan to exterminate and deport his country's remaining Jews. And wandering through the narrative, like a crazy Soviet Ragtime, are such historical figures as Paul Robeson, Solomon Mikhoels, and Marc Chagall. As hilarious as it is moving, as intellectual as it is violent--with echoes of Inglourious Basterds and Seven Samurai--THE YID is a tragicomic masterpiece of historical fiction"--
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250079039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Moscow, February 1953. A week before Stalin's death, his final pogrom, "one that would forever rid the Motherland of the vermin," is in full swing. Three government goons arrive in the middle of the night to arrest Solomon Shimonovich Levinson, an actor from the defunct State Jewish Theater. But Levinson, though an old man, is a veteran of past wars, and his shocking response to the intruders sets in motion a series of events both zany and deadly as he proceeds to assemble a ragtag group to help him enact a mad-brilliant plot: the assassination of a tyrant. Levinson's cast of unlikely heroes includes Aleksandr Kogan, a machine-gunner in Levinson's Red Army band who has since become one of Moscow's premier surgeons; Frederick Lewis, an African American who came to the USSR to build smelters and stayed to work as an engineer, learning Russian, Esperanto, and Yiddish; and Kima Petrova, an enigmatic young woman with a score to settle. While the setting is Soviet Russia, the backdrop is Shakespeare: A mad king has a diabolical plan to exterminate and deport his country's remaining Jews. And wandering through the narrative, like a crazy Soviet Ragtime, are such historical figures as Paul Robeson, Solomon Mikhoels, and Marc Chagall. As hilarious as it is moving, as intellectual as it is violent--with echoes of Inglourious Basterds and Seven Samurai--THE YID is a tragicomic masterpiece of historical fiction"--
Year Book
Author: United States Engineers. 3d Volunteer (War with Spain)
Publisher:
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Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Proceedings of the Stated Convention of the ... National Encampment
Author: United Spanish War Veterans
Publisher:
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Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Author: Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Some early issues include the Proceedings of the ... annual encampment of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Some early issues include the Proceedings of the ... annual encampment of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.