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Spioner i historien : från antiken till vita duken

AvStephen Alford,Henrik Berggrenm. fl.

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

209 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?

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.

Spies in history : from the ancient world to the silver screen

AvStephen Alford,Henrik Berggrenm. fl.

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.

Jeoffry

The Poet's Cat

AvOliver Soden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

188 kr

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Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written. Prize-winning biographer Oliver Soden combines meticulous research with passages of dazzling invention to recount the life of the cat praised as ‘a mixture of gravity and waggery’. The narrative roams from the theatres and bordellos of Covent Garden to the cell where Smart was imprisoned for mania. At once whimsical and profound, witty and deeply moving, Soden’s biography plays with the genre like a cat with a toy. It tells the story of a poet and a poem, while setting Jeoffry’s life and adventures against the roaring backdrop of eighteenth-century London.

Jeoffry

The Poet's Cat

AvOliver Soden

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

156 kr

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'An inspired an original tale ... Jeoffry is the greatest cat in the English language' - Hilary Mantel'Simply unforgettable ... one of the most beautiful and haunting books of recent times' - Alexander McCall Smith'A heart-lifting delight; I absolutely loved it. A triumph' - Alexandra HarrisJeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written.Prize-winning biographer Oliver Soden combines meticulous research with passages of dazzling invention to recount the life of the cat praised as ‘a mixture of gravity and waggery’. The narrative roams from the theatres and bordellos of Covent Garden to the cell where Smart was imprisoned for mania. At once whimsical and profound, witty and deeply moving, Soden’s biography plays with the genre like a cat with a toy. It tells the story of a poet and a poem, while setting Jeoffry’s life and adventures against the roaring backdrop of eighteenth-century London.

Michael Tippett

The Biography

AvOliver Soden

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

169 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

'A delight to read' Philip Pullman'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom ServiceA BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including the oratorio A Child of Our Time, five operas, and four symphonies - is among the most visionary of the twentieth century. But little has been written about his extraordinary life. In this long-awaited first biography, Oliver Soden weaves a century-spanning narrative of epic scope and penetrating insight. His achievement is to have enriched our understanding not only of Tippett but of the twentieth century. Figures such as T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, and W.H. Auden jostle in the cast list. An Edwardian world of gaslight and empire cedes to turmoil and warfare and his operas' game-changing attitudes to gay and civil rights, against a backdrop of the Cold War and the Space Race.The result is a landmark in the study of twentieth-century culture, simultaneously an astonishing feat of scholarship and a story as enthralling as in any great novel.

Masquerade

The Lives of Noël Coward

AvOliver Soden

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

169 kr

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'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves'DAILY TELEGRAPHThe voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the world. Phrases from Noël Coward's songs - "Mad About The Boy", "Mad Dogs and Englishman" - are forever lodged in the public consciousness. He was at one point the most highly paid author in the world. Yet some of his most striking and daring writing remains unfamiliar. As T.S. Eliot said, in 1954, "there are things you can learn from Noël Coward that you won't learn from Shakespeare".Coward wrote some fifty plays and nine musicals, as well as revues, screenplays, short stories, poetry, and a novel. He was both composer and lyricist for approximately 675 songs. Louis Mountbatten's famous tribute argued that, while there were greater comedians, novelists, composers, painters and so on, only "the master" had combined fourteen talents in one. So central was he to his age's theatre that any account of his career is also a history of the British stage. And so daring was Coward's unorthdoxy in his closest relationships, obliquely reflected throughout his writing, that it must also be a history of sexual liberation in the twentieth century. In Oliver Soden's sparkling, story-packed new Life, the Master finally gets his due.

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Oliver Soden – författare

Spioner i historien : från antiken till vita duken

Spies in history : from the ancient world to the silver screen

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Masquerade

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