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Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
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Vårt intresse för spioner, både verkliga och fiktiva, verkar outtömligt. Men var och när började spioneriets historia och hur har spionagearbetet och hantverket utvecklats genom århundradena?
Spioner i historien är en samling porträtt av några av de mest berömda spionerna, men innehåller även några mindre kända och mer överraskande namn: Rahab, den kananeiska kvinnan i Bibeln som hjälper israeliterna före deras anfall mot Jeriko; Thomas Phelippes, en skicklig kryptoanalytiker och hanterare av hemliga agenter under den elisabetanska tiden och Noël Coward, den berömde dramatikern och sångaren som använde sitt kändisskap för att påverka den amerikanska allmänheten och den politiska opinionen för att hjälpa Storbritannien under andra världskriget.
I den här volymen undersöker historiker, forskare och författare underrättelseverksamhet och spionage genom historien från den antika världen till det kalla kriget och vidare till Putins, Trumps och Xi Jinpings tidsålder. Boken finns även i engelsk utgåva.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
199 kr
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Vårt intresse för spioner, både verkliga och fiktiva, verkar outtömligt. Men var och när började spioneriets historia och hur har spionagearbetet och hantverket utvecklats genom århundradena?
Spies in History är en samling porträtt av några av de mest berömda spionerna, men innehåller även några mindre kända och mer överraskande namn: Rahab, den kananeiska kvinnan i Bibeln som hjälper israeliterna före deras anfall mot Jeriko; Thomas Phelippes, en skicklig kryptoanalytiker och hanterare av hemliga agenter under den elisabetanska tiden och Noël Coward, den berömde dramatikern och sångaren som använde sitt kändisskap för att påverka den amerikanska allmänheten och den politiska opinionen för att hjälpa Storbritannien under andra världskriget. I den här volymen undersöker historiker, forskare och författare underrättelseverksamhet och spionage genom historien från den antika världen till det kalla kriget och vidare till Putins, Trumps och Xi Jinpings tidsålder. Boken finns även i svensk utgåva.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
371 kr
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Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms.The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly marked by the populism of the late 19th century. They were sharply aware of the social contradictions of modernisation and were committed to a highly politicized, often polemical poetry that criticised finance capitalism and its institutions--notably banks--in the strongest terms. Providing a history of the aesthetics of Jeffersonianism and its collision with modernism in the works of Pound and Williams, Alec Marsh traces ""the money question"" from the republican period through the 1940s. Marsh can thus read two modernist epics--Pound's Cantos and Williams's Paterson--as the poets hoped they would be read, as attempts to break the hold of ""false"" financial values on the American imagination. Marsh argues that Pound's and Williams's similar Jeffersonian outlooks were the direct result of the political battles of the 1890s concerning the meaning of money. Although Pound's interest in money and economics is well known, few people are aware that both poets were active in the Social Credit monetary-reform movement of the 1930s and 1940s, a movement shown by Marsh to have direct links to Jeffersonianism via American populism. Ultimately, the two poets took divergent paths, with Pound swerving toward Italian fascism (as exemplified in his Jefferson and/or Mussolini) and Williams becoming deeply influenced by the American pragmatism of John Dewey. Thus, Marsh concludes, Pound embraced the fascist version of state-capitalism whereas his old friend proclaimed a pragmatic openness to the new selves engendered by corporate capitalism. Money and Modernity exemplifies the best of recent literary criticism in its incorporation of American studies and cultural studies approaches to bring new insight to modern masterworks.
E-bok
Engelska, 2011634 kr
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Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms. The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly marked by the populism of the late 19th century. They were sharply aware of the social contradictions of modernization and were committed to a highly politicized, often polemical poetry that criticized finance capitalism and its institutions--notably banks--in the strongest terms. Providing a history of the aesthetics of Jeffersonianism and its collision with modernism in the works of Pound and Williams, Alec Marsh traces "the money question" from the republican period through the 1940s. Marsh can thus read two modernist epics--Pound''s Cantos and Williams''s Paterson--as the poets hoped they would be read, as attempts to break the hold of "false" financial values on the American imagination. Marsh argues that Pound''s and Williams''s similar Jeffersonian outlooks were the direct result of the political battles of the 1890s concerning the meaning of money. Although Pound''s interest in money and economics is well known, few people are aware that both poets were active in the Social Credit monetary-reform movement of the 1930s and 1940s, a movement shown by Marsh to have direct links to Jeffersonianism via American populism. Ultimately, the two poets took divergent paths, with Pound swerving toward Italian fascism (as exemplified in his Jefferson and/or Mussolini) and Williams becoming deeply influenced by the American pragmatism of John Dewey. Thus, Marsh concludes, Pound embraced the fascist version of state-capitalism whereas his old friend proclaimed a pragmatic openness to the new selves engendered by corporate capitalism. Money and Modernity exemplifies the best of recent literary criticism in its incorporation of American studies and cultural studies approaches to bring new insight to modern masterworks.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
632 kr
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John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first book to comprehensively explore the extensive correspondence - lasting over a decade and numbering hundreds of letters - between the two men.John Kasper and Ezra Pound examines the mutual influence the two men exerted on each other in Pound's later life: how John Kasper developed from a devotee of Pound's poetry to an active right-wing agitator; how Pound's own ideas about race and American politics developed in his discussions with Kasper and how this informed his later poetry. Shedding a disturbing new light on Ezra Pound's committed engagement with extreme right-wing politics in Civil Rights-era America, this is an essential read for students of 20th-century literature.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 768 kr
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The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activist political poetry. Through an in-depth reading of the "Washington Cantos" this book reveals the ways in which Pound integrated into his verse themes and ideas that remain central to American far-right ideology to this day: States' Rights, White-supremacy and racial segregation, the usurpation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, and history as racial struggle.Pound's struggle was also personal. These poems also celebrate his passion for his muse and lover, Sheri Martinelli, as he tries to teach her his politics and, in the final poems, mount his legal defence against the unresolved treason charges hanging over his head.Reading the poetry alongside correspondence and unpublished archival writings, Ezra Pound’s Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light is an important new work on a poet who stands at the heart of 20th-century Modernism. Building on his previous book John Kasper and Ezra Pound: Saving the Republic (Bloomsbury, 2015), Alec Marsh explores the way the political ideas revealed in Pound’s correspondence manifested themselves in his later poetry.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2021557 kr
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The instalments of Ezra Pound''s life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet''s struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activist political poetry. Through an in-depth reading of the "Washington Cantos" this book reveals the ways in which Pound integrated into his verse themes and ideas that remain central to American far-right ideology to this day: States'' Rights, White-supremacy and racial segregation, the usurpation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, and history as racial struggle.Pound''s struggle was also personal. These poems also celebrate his passion for his muse and lover, Sheri Martinelli, as he tries to teach her his politics and, in the final poems, mount his legal defence against the unresolved treason charges hanging over his head.Reading the poetry alongside correspondence and unpublished archival writings, Ezra Pound''s Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light is an important new work on a poet who stands at the heart of 20th-century Modernism. Building on his previous book John Kasper and Ezra Pound: Saving the Republic (Bloomsbury, 2015), Alec Marsh explores the way the political ideas revealed in Pound''s correspondence manifested themselves in his later poetry.
E-bok
Engelska, 2021557 kr
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The instalments of Ezra Pound''s life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet''s struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activist political poetry. Through an in-depth reading of the "Washington Cantos" this book reveals the ways in which Pound integrated into his verse themes and ideas that remain central to American far-right ideology to this day: States'' Rights, White-supremacy and racial segregation, the usurpation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, and history as racial struggle.Pound''s struggle was also personal. These poems also celebrate his passion for his muse and lover, Sheri Martinelli, as he tries to teach her his politics and, in the final poems, mount his legal defence against the unresolved treason charges hanging over his head.Reading the poetry alongside correspondence and unpublished archival writings, Ezra Pound''s Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light is an important new work on a poet who stands at the heart of 20th-century Modernism. Building on his previous book John Kasper and Ezra Pound: Saving the Republic (Bloomsbury, 2015), Alec Marsh explores the way the political ideas revealed in Pound''s correspondence manifested themselves in his later poetry.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
520 kr
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The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activist political poetry. Through an in-depth reading of the "Washington Cantos" this book reveals the ways in which Pound integrated into his verse themes and ideas that remain central to American far-right ideology to this day: States' Rights, White-supremacy and racial segregation, the usurpation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, and history as racial struggle.Pound's struggle was also personal. These poems also celebrate his passion for his muse and lover, Sheri Martinelli, as he tries to teach her his politics and, in the final poems, mount his legal defence against the unresolved treason charges hanging over his head.Reading the poetry alongside correspondence and unpublished archival writings, Ezra Pound’s Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light is an important new work on a poet who stands at the heart of 20th-century Modernism. Building on his previous book John Kasper and Ezra Pound: Saving the Republic (Bloomsbury, 2015), Alec Marsh explores the way the political ideas revealed in Pound’s correspondence manifested themselves in his later poetry.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 448 kr
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Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich’s later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender. From 1983 onward, after she visited revolutionary Nicaragua until the end of her life, Rich’s political vision can best be described as Marxist-Humanist. Until recently, very little attention has been paid to Rich’s “interest” in Marx; there is no in-depth treatment of the effect of Marx’s humanistic philosophy on Rich’s later work, or even on her unwavering, but altered dedication to Women’s Liberation. This book fills this gap, showing how Rich’s discovery of Marx’s humanism affected her poetry. In doing so, it makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through poetry.
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PDF, Engelska, 2024505 kr
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Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich''s later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender. From 1983 onward, after she visited revolutionary Nicaragua until the end of her life, Rich''s political vision can best be described as Marxist-Humanist. Until recently, very little attention has been paid to Rich''s “interest” in Marx; there is no in-depth treatment of the effect of Marx''s humanistic philosophy on Rich''s later work, or even on her unwavering, but altered dedication to Women''s Liberation. This book fills this gap, showing how Rich''s discovery of Marx''s humanism affected her poetry. In doing so, it makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through poetry.
E-bok
Engelska, 2024505 kr
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Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich''s later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender. From 1983 onward, after she visited revolutionary Nicaragua until the end of her life, Rich''s political vision can best be described as Marxist-Humanist. Until recently, very little attention has been paid to Rich''s “interest” in Marx; there is no in-depth treatment of the effect of Marx''s humanistic philosophy on Rich''s later work, or even on her unwavering, but altered dedication to Women''s Liberation. This book fills this gap, showing how Rich''s discovery of Marx''s humanism affected her poetry. In doing so, it makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through poetry.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
569 kr
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Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich’s later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender. From 1983 onward, after she visited revolutionary Nicaragua until the end of her life, Rich’s political vision can best be described as Marxist-Humanist. Until recently, very little attention has been paid to Rich’s “interest” in Marx; there is no in-depth treatment of the effect of Marx’s humanistic philosophy on Rich’s later work, or even on her unwavering, but altered dedication to Women’s Liberation. This book fills this gap, showing how Rich’s discovery of Marx’s humanism affected her poetry. In doing so, it makes a significant intervention into debates about the direction of American poetics and argues powerfully for a greater consciousness of political engagement through poetry.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
2 087 kr
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John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first book to comprehensively explore the extensive correspondence - lasting over a decade and numbering hundreds of letters - between the two men.John Kasper and Ezra Pound examines the mutual influence the two men exerted on each other in Pound's later life: how John Kasper developed from a devotee of Pound's poetry to an active right-wing agitator; how Pound's own ideas about race and American politics developed in his discussions with Kasper and how this informed his later poetry. Shedding a disturbing new light on Ezra Pound's committed engagement with extreme right-wing politics in Civil Rights-era America, this is an essential read for students of 20th-century literature.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015679 kr
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John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first book to comprehensively explore the extensive correspondence - lasting over a decade and numbering hundreds of letters - between the two men. John Kasper and Ezra Pound examines the mutual influence the two men exerted on each other in Pound''s later life: how John Kasper developed from a devotee of Pound''s poetry to an active right-wing agitator; how Pound''s own ideas about race and American politics developed in his discussions with Kasper and how this informed his later poetry. Shedding a disturbing new light on Ezra Pound''s committed engagement with extreme right-wing politics in Civil Rights-era America, this is an essential read for students of 20th-century literature.
E-bok
Engelska, 2015679 kr
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John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first book to comprehensively explore the extensive correspondence - lasting over a decade and numbering hundreds of letters - between the two men. John Kasper and Ezra Pound examines the mutual influence the two men exerted on each other in Pound''s later life: how John Kasper developed from a devotee of Pound''s poetry to an active right-wing agitator; how Pound''s own ideas about race and American politics developed in his discussions with Kasper and how this informed his later poetry. Shedding a disturbing new light on Ezra Pound''s committed engagement with extreme right-wing politics in Civil Rights-era America, this is an essential read for students of 20th-century literature.
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''A rollicking good read'' IAN RANKIN''A fun read'' OBSERVER''Deftly plotted and hugely entertaining'' JAMES WILSONThis third novel in the Drabble and Harris thrillers is perfect for fans of action-packed, historical fiction.When daring journalist Sir Percival Harris gets wind of a curious crime in a sleepy English town, he ropes in his old friend Professor Ernest Drabble to help him investigate.The crime is a grave robbery, and as Drabble and Harris pry deeper, events take a mysterious turn when a theft at the British Museum is soon followed by a murder.The friends are soon involved in a tumultuous quest that takes them from the genteel streets of London to the wide plains of the United States. What exactly is at stake is not altogether clear - but if they don''t act soon, the outcome could be a bloody conflict, one that will cross borders, continents and oceans...Meanwhile, can Drabble and Harris''s friendship - which has endured near-death experiences on several continents, not to mention a boarding school duel - survive a crisis in the shape of the beautiful and enigmatic Dr Charlotte Moore?Praise for Alec Marsh''s Drabble and Harris thrillers:''Marsh''s mixture of derring-do and scholarship makes for a fun read'' OBSERVER on Ghosts of the West''An immensely readable treat!''ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH''Told with humour and flair, Enemy of the Raj is a highly enjoyable, riveting read''ABIR MUKHERJEE''A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable diversion''NEW STATESMAN on Enemy of the Raj''Tremendous stuff! With the arrival of Alec Marsh''s first Drabble and Harris thriller, John Buchan must be stirring uneasily in his grave''STANLEY JOHNSON''Immensely enjoyable''SPALDING TODAY''Hugely readable''ALEXANDER LARMAN, THE CHAP
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
141 kr
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'An immensely readable treat!' ALEXANDER McCALL SMITHThe first book in a light-hearted historical adventure series set during the mid-twentieth century............................................................................Ernest Drabble, a Cambridge historian and mountaineer, travels to rural Devon to inspect the decapitated head of Oliver Cromwell - a macabre artefact owned by Dr Wilkinson. Drabble only tells one person of his plans - Harris, an old school friend and press reporter. On the train to Devon, Drabble narrowly avoids being murdered, only to reach his destination and find Dr Wilkinson has been killed. Gripped in Wilkinson's hand is a telegram from Winston Churchill instructing him to bring the head of Oliver Cromwell to London.Drabble has unwittingly become embroiled in a pro-Nazi conspiracy headed by a high-status Conservative member of the British government.And so, Drabble teams up with Wilkinson's secretary, Kate Honeyand, to find the head and rescue Harris who is being tortured for information..............................................................................Praise for Rule Britannia:'A rollicking good read' IAN RANKIN 'Marsh chomps the period bit between his teeth and relates his yarn with winning gusto' NEW STATESMAN'Tremendous stuff! With the arrival of Alec Marsh's first Drabble and Harris thriller, John Buchan must be stirring uneasily in his grave'STANLEY JOHNSON
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
141 kr
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'A rollicking good read' IAN RANKIN'Employs a turbulent 1930s India as the canvas for a nefarious assassination plot complete with tiger hunts and shady maharajahs. A rollicking Raj-era mystery' VASEEM KHAN The second in the series of the Dabble and Harris thrillers! Set in the mid-twentieth century, this adventure series is perfect for fans of action-packed, historical fiction.India, 1937. Intrepid reporter Sir Percival Harris is hunting tigers with his friend, Professor Ernest Drabble. Harris soon bags a man-eater - but later finds himself caught up in a hunt of a different kind...Harris is due to interview the Maharaja of Bikaner, a friend to the Raj, for his London newspaper - and he and Drabble soon find themselves accompanied by a local journalist, Miss Heinz. But is the lady all she seems? And the Maharaja himself is proving elusive...Meanwhile, the movement for Indian independence is becoming stronger, and Drabble and Harris witness some of the conflict first-hand. But even more drama comes on arrival at Bikaner when the friends find themselves confined to their quarters... and embroiled in an assassination plot!Just who is the enemy in the Maharaja's palace? What is the connection to a mysterious man Drabble meets in Delhi? And what secret plans do the British colonial officers have up their sleeves?............................................................Praise for Alec Marsh's Drabble and Harris thrillers:'An immensely readable treat!' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH'Told with humour and flair, Enemy of the Raj is a highly enjoyable, riveting read'ABIR MUKHERJEE'A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable diversion'NEW STATESMAN on Enemy of the Raj 'Tremendous stuff! With the arrival of Alec Marsh's first Drabble and Harris thriller, John Buchan must be stirring uneasily in his grave'STANLEY JOHNSON
E-bok
Engelska, 202044 kr
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''A rollicking good read'' IAN RANKIN''Employs a turbulent 1930s India as the canvas for a nefarious assassination plot complete with tiger hunts and shady maharajahs. A rollicking Raj-era mystery'' VASEEM KHANThe second in the series of the Drabble and Harris thrillers! Set in the mid-twentieth century, this adventure series is perfect for fans of action-packed, historical fiction.
............................................................India, 1937. Intrepid reporter Sir Percival Harris is hunting tigers with his friend, Professor Ernest Drabble. Harris soon bags a man-eater - but later finds himself caught up in a hunt of a different kind...Harris is due to interview the Maharaja of Bikaner, a friend to the Raj, for his London newspaper - and he and Drabble soon find themselves accompanied by a local journalist, Miss Heinz. But is the lady all she seems? And the Maharaja himself is proving elusive...Meanwhile, the movement for Indian independence is becoming stronger, and Drabble and Harris witness some of the conflict first-hand. But even more drama comes on arrival at Bikaner when the friends find themselves confined to their quarters... and embroiled in an assassination plot!Just who is the enemy in the Maharaja''s palace? What is the connection to a mysterious man Drabble meets in Delhi? And what secret plans do the British colonial officers have up their sleeves?............................................................Praise for Alec Marsh''s Drabble and Harris thrillers:
''An immensely readable treat!''ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH''Told with humour and flair, Enemy of the Raj is a highly enjoyable, riveting read''ABIR MUKHERJEE''A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable diversion''NEW STATESMAN on Enemy of the Raj''Tremendous stuff! With the arrival of Alec Marsh''s first Drabble and Harris thriller, John Buchan must be stirring uneasily in his grave''STANLEY JOHNSON
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
165 kr
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'A rollicking good read' IAN RANKIN'A fun read' OBSERVER'Deftly plotted and hugely entertaining' JAMES WILSONThis third novel in the Drabble and Harris thrillers is perfect for fans of action-packed, historical fiction.When daring journalist Sir Percival Harris gets wind of a curious crime in a sleepy English town, he ropes in his old friend Professor Ernest Drabble to help him investigate.The crime is a grave robbery, and as Drabble and Harris pry deeper, events take a mysterious turn when a theft at the British Museum is soon followed by a murder.The friends are soon involved in a tumultuous quest that takes them from the genteel streets of London to the wide plains of the United States. What exactly is at stake is not altogether clear - but if they don't act soon, the outcome could be a bloody conflict, one that will cross borders, continents and oceans...Meanwhile, can Drabble and Harris's friendship - which has endured near-death experiences on several continents, not to mention a boarding school duel - survive a crisis in the shape of the beautiful and enigmatic Dr Charlotte Moore?Praise for Alec Marsh's Drabble and Harris thrillers:'Marsh's mixture of derring-do and scholarship makes for a fun read' OBSERVER on Ghosts of the West'An immensely readable treat!'ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH'Told with humour and flair, Enemy of the Raj is a highly enjoyable, riveting read'ABIR MUKHERJEE'A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable diversion'NEW STATESMAN on Enemy of the Raj'Tremendous stuff! With the arrival of Alec Marsh's first Drabble and Harris thriller, John Buchan must be stirring uneasily in his grave'STANLEY JOHNSON'Immensely enjoyable'SPALDING TODAY'Hugely readable'ALEXANDER LARMAN, THE CHAP
Del 37 - Critical Lives
Ezra Pound
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
159 kr
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Poet, peace activist, Confucian, fascist, traitor – love him or loathe him, Ezra Pound is impossible to ignore as one of the most influential and controversial poets of modern times. This book raises provocative issues and questions for anyone interested in the politics, art, society and poetry of the 20th century.No author of Pound’s stature promoted so many artistic acquaintances who would go on to become such distinguished names in their own right. James Joyce and T. S. Eliot were among the many who benefited from Pound’s support and editorial interventions. Without Pound's generosity and promotional zeal, literary modernism might never have happened. Without Pound it could never have developed into the influential movement that it became. Yet by 1925 Pound himself was living obscurely in Italy and finding it difficult getting his own work published. In Italy he became an enthusiastic supporter of Mussolini’s brand of fascism and a radio broadcaster who promoted his own extreme take on political economics. Arrested there by the U.S. Army in 1945, Pound was indicted for treason, found mentally unfit to stand trial, and incarcerated for years in an asylum in Washington, DC.What happened? How did this great modernist succumb to such outlandish views? Was he insane? Exploring Pound’s essays, correspondence and poetry – and not least the magnum opus, The Cantos, Alec Marsh throws a good deal of demystifying light on Pound’s writings and activities as well as giving us a persuasive account of his troubled life, one that will be essential reading for students and fans of modernist literature.
E-bok
Engelska139 kr
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The public appetite for spies, both real and fictional, seems inexhaustible. But where and when did spying begin and how has the art and craft of espionage developed over the centuries? Spies in History is a collection of portraits of some of the most famous spies we know, but it also includes some lesser known and more surprising names. A remarkable line-up of distinguished historians, scholars and writers examine the evolution of intelligence and counter-intelligence – from ancient times to the Cold War and the age of Putin, Trump and Xi Jinping – to reveal the truth about espionage and the myths that surround it.
E-bok
Svenska139 kr
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Vårt intresse för spioner, både verkliga och fiktiva, verkar outtömligt. Men var och när började spioneriets historia och hur har spionagearbetet utvecklats genom århundradena?Spioner i historien är en samling porträtt av några av de mest berömda spionerna, men innehåller även några mindre kända och mer överraskande namn. I den här volymen undersöker historiker, forskare och författare underrättelseverksamhet och spionage genom historien – från antiken till det kalla kriget och vidare till Putins, Trumps och Xi Jinpings tidsålder – för att avslöja spioneriets hemligheter och myterna som omger det.