Silent Game - The Real World of Imaginary Spies

Informationen zum Autor DAVID STAFFORD is the author of ten books including Secret Agent: The True Story of the Covert War against Hitler , Spies beneath Berlin , Ten Days to D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion , and Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II . Klappentext Traces the history of spy writers and their fiction from creator William Le Queux! of the Edwardian age! to John le Carré! of the Cold War era. Stafford reveals the connections between fact and fiction as seen in the lives of writers with experience in intelligence! including John Buchan! Somerset Maugham! Ian Fleming! and Graham Greene.

Product details

• Authors: David Stafford
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2012
• EAN: 9780820339436
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3943-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective