Screen LibraryWriter, sailor, soldier, spy : Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961 /
In 2010, official CIA historian Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S. Marine colonel, and Oxford-trained historian, began to uncover clues suggesting Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway's involvement in mid-twentieth-century spycraft was far more com...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
In 2010, official CIA historian Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S. Marine colonel, and Oxford-trained historian, began to uncover clues suggesting Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway's involvement in mid-twentieth-century spycraft was far more complex, sustained, and fraught with risks than has been previously supposed. Now Reynolds's narrative reveals his discoveries for the first time, bringing to light the whole story of this hidden side of Hemingway's life: his recruitment by Soviet spies to work with the NKVD (forerunner to the KGB), followed by a complex set of secret relationships with American agencies, including the FBI, the Department of State, the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to the CIA. Starting with Hemingway's sympathy to antifascist forces during the 1930s, Reynolds illuminates Hemingway's immersion in the life-and-death world of the revolutionary left, from his passionate commitment to the Spanish Republic; his successful pursuit by Soviet NKVD agents, who valued Hemingway's influence, access, and mobility; his wartime meeting with communist leader Chou En-Lai, future premier of the People's Republic of China; and finally to his undercover involvement with Cuban rebels in the late 1950s and his sympathy for Fidel Castro ... |
| Item Description: | Exchange. |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780062440136 0062440136 9780062677617 0062677616 |
| Index Number: | PS3515 |
| CLC: | K837.125.6 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.6/H488R-1 |
| 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. |