Hemingway on the China front : his WWII spy mission with Martha Gellhorn / by Peter Moreira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreira, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Travel--China.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Espionage, American--China--History--20th century.

Espionage, American.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Travel.

Americans.

History.

China.

Americans--China--History--20th century.

Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998--Travel--China.

Gellhorn, Martha.

China--History--1937-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--China.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, Inc., [2006]

Summary:

Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941. The husband-and-wife team of celebrity literati intended to report on the China-Japan war while honeymooning in the romantic Far East. What they found was a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of dictators and drunks, scoundrels and socialites, heroes and halfwits. And their trip proved to be the beginning of the end of their marriage.

Contents:

1 Marriage in Wyoming 1

2 Voyage 13

3 Hemingway's Hong Kong 27

4 CNAC 45

5 Gellhorn's Hong Kong 53

6 The Canton Front 71

7 Return from the Front 93

8 Chungking 105

9 Chengtu 119

10 Chou En-Lai 127

11 Chiang Kai-Shek 135

12 The Burma Road 149

13 The Journey Home 159

14 The Honeymoon Is Over 185

Appendix I Letter to Morgenthau 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.

ISBN:

1574888811

OCLC:

62085539

Publisher Number:

9781574888812