Hemingway on the China front : his WWII spy mission with Martha Gellhorn

Summary: "When the U.S Treasury Department hired Ernest Hemingway as a spy in China before the United States entered the war, it awakened a new obsession in America's most adventuresome author. The great literary man of action reveled in being a government operative, while his journalist wife championed the anti-Japanese resistance of Chiang Kai-Shek. Hemingway on the China Front is the first book to track Hemingway's progress as a spy in Asia during the war, defining his duties as he saw fit. Author Peter Moreira follows Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn as they seek stories to file - and try to adapt to each other's strong egos - in dangerous, uncomfortable, exotic places in the throes of war. Well versed in Asian history and culture, Moreira also provides context of time and place."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 1612343031
ISBN: 9781612343037
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
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Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, Inc., ©2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; Author's Note on Chinese Proper Nouns; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Marriage in Wyoming; 2. Voyage; 3. Hemingway's Hong Kong; 4. CNAC; 5. Gellhorn's Hong Kong; 6. The Canton Front; 7. Return from the Front; 8. Chungking; 9. Chengtu; 10. Chou En-Lai; 11. Chiang Kai-Shek; 12. The Burma Road; 13. The Journey Home; 14. The Honeymoon Is Over; Appendix I: Letter to Morgenthau; Appendix II: Chronology; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z; About the Author.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.