Jenny Thompson – författare

At last the world has woken up to the thrill of women's sport. In 2023 two billion people tuned into the women's World Cup soccer and the WNBA hit US prime time. The 2024 Olympics achieved gender parity. In cricket, 53 million people watched the 2020 T20 World Cup, and a record-breaking crowd of more than 86,000 packed the MCG for the women's final. Cricketer and former journalist Jenny Thompson wanted to learn about this explosion in women's cricket firsthand, and set off on a solo global adventure through Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Oceania. In more than fifty countries she saw how cricket opened doors to friendship and fun, and provided education and income to women of all ages. In Hong Kong Jenny played alongside a team of Filipino domestic helpers, in Vanuatu she met the grandmas playing island cricket with their granddaughters, and in Brazil she spent a week with the professional women's team - women who fight for change, for their sisters to be on pitches and boards, on television, in the newspapers and on murals, to be recognised, rewarded and counted. Her World Cricket Tour is not about the ball or the format. It's a story of solidarity, community, resilience and building something bigger than cricket. And it's a travel adventure for any cricket lover who has dreamed of batting on a beach or volcano, or bowling in the jungle or desert.

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An Owl in a Hawk’s World: Top diplomat Llewellyn E Thompson was everywhere the Cold War was.Winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for Best BiographyWinner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for Best BiographyAgainst the sprawling backdrop of the Cold War, The Kremlinologist revisits some of the twentieth century's greatest conflicts as seen through the eyes of its hardest working diplomat, Llewellyn E Thompson. From the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin, Thompson became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major global events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet unlike his contemporaries Robert S. McNamara and Dean Rusk, who considered Thompson one of the most crucial Cold War actors and the "unsung hero" of the Cuban Missile Crisis, he has not been the subject of a major biography—until now. Thompson's daughters Jenny and Sherry Thompson skillfully and thoroughly document his life as an accomplished career diplomat. In vigorous prose, they describe how Thompson joined the Foreign Service both to feed his desire for adventure and from a deep sense of duty. They also detail the crucial role he played as a negotiator unafraid of compromise. Known in the State Department as "Mr. Tightlips," Thompson was the epitome of discretion. People from completely opposite ends of the political spectrum lauded his approach to diplomacy and claimed him as their own. Refuting historical misinterpretations of the Berlin Crisis, the Austrian State Treaty, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Thompsons tell their father's fascinating story. With unprecedented access to Thompson's FBI dossier, State Department personnel files, letters, diaries, speeches, and documents, and relying on probing interviews and generous assistance from American and Russian archivists, historians, and government officials, the authors bring new material to light, including important information on the U-2, Kennan's containment policy, and Thompson's role in US covert operations machinery. This unique and monumental biography not only restores a central figure to history, it makes the crucial events he shaped accessible to a broader readership and gives contemporary readers a backdrop for understanding the fraught United StatesRussia relationship that still exists today.

D-Day with beach umbrellas in the distance? Troops ordering ice cream? American and German forces celebrating Christmas together in the barracks? This could only be the curious world of 20th-century war reenactors. A relatively recent and rapidly expanding phenomenon, reenactments in the United States of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War now draw more than 8,000 participants a year. Mostly men, these reenactors celebrate, remember, and re-create the tiniest details of the Battle of the Bulge in the Maryland Woods, D-Day on a beach in Virginia, and WWI trench warfare in Pennsylvania.Jenny Thompson draws on seven years of fieldwork, personal interviews, and surveys to look into this growing subculture. She looks at how the reenactors'' near obsession with owning “authentic” military clothing, guns, paraphernalia, and vehicles often explodes into heated debates. War Games sheds light on the ways people actually make use of history in their daily lives and looks intensely into the meaning of war itself and how wars have become the heart of American history. The author''s photographs provide incredible evidence of how “real” these battles can become.