John le Carré and the Cold War / Toby Manning.
John le Carré and the Cold War / Toby Manning.
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Publisher
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Call Numbers
G 2018/5198
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 239 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: "a nation's political health": le Carré and Cold-War Britain -- Alarm call: the communist threat and call for the dead -- "Breeze blocks and barbed wire": the Berlin Wall and The spy who came in from the cold -- "Looking at his own reflection": the establishment and The looking glass...
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Publisher
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
This book explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré's major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, it analyses his work in light of key topics in 20th-century history, including containment of Communism, decolonization, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, the Cambridge spy-ring, th...
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John le Carré and the Cold War / Toby Manning.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/5198
Record Identifier
74VKV86bXlQX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV86bXlQX
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ISBN
9781350036390 hardcover
1350036390 hardcover
DDC
823.914
MMS ID
991024187511302626
