The Quiet American - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quiet American write by Graham Greene. This book was released on 2018-03-13. The Quiet American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).
Another Quiet American
Another Quiet American - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Another Quiet American write by Brett Dakin. This book was released on 2023-11-06. Another Quiet American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION In Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos, Brett Dakin takes you through the corridors of power and into the living rooms of Laos. Among many others, you'll meet Brett's boss, a wealthy general who strikes fear into the heart of all who hear his name; an aging prince pining for the French colonial past; an American pilot who left home to fight and never returned; and a new generation of Lao who have more money than they can use, but still search for happiness. It's a sympathetic yet irreverent glimpse of one of the world's few remaining communist nations - and a way of life that is fast slipping away.
The Quiet Americans
The Quiet Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quiet Americans write by Scott Anderson. This book was released on 2020-09-01. The Quiet Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War—and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world. “Enthralling … captivating reading.” —The New York Times Book Review At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA. Chronicling the fascinating lives of four agents, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies: Michael Burke, who organized parachute commandos from an Italian villa; Frank Wisner, an ingenious spymaster who directed actions around the world; Peter Sichel, a German Jew who outwitted the ruthless KGB in Berlin; and Edward Lansdale, a mastermind of psychological warfare in the Far East. But despite their lofty ambitions, time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by a combination of ham-fisted politicking and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government.
A Quiet American
A Quiet American - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Quiet American write by Andy Marino. This book was released on 2000-11-13. A Quiet American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Varian Fry, an American war correspondent, set up a secret refuge escape system in Marseilles to get leading artists and intellectuals out of occupied France.
The Invisible Harry Gold
The Invisible Harry Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invisible Harry Gold write by Allen M. Hornblum. This book was released on 2010-09-28. The Invisible Harry Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A gripping account of the man who gave the USSR the plans for the atom bomb. The subject of the most intensive public manhunt in the history of the FBI, Gold was arrested in May 1950. His confession revealed scores of contacts, and his testimony in the trial of the Rosenbergs proved pivotal.
