![]() ![]() No sooner was the state of Israel founded than its Jewish inhabitants faced annihilation by her neighbors. ![]() "Spies of No Country" is set during the twenty months between January 1948 and August 1949. But in the end the Arab Section would emerge, improbably, as the nucleus of the Mossad, Israel's vaunted intelligence agency. Of the dozen spies in the Arab Section at the war's outbreak, five were caught and executed. While performing their dangerous work these men were often unsure to whom they were reporting, and sometimes even who they'd become. In 1948, with Israel's existence in the balance during the War of Independence, our spies went undercover in Beirut, where they spent the next two years operating out of a kiosk, collecting intelligence, and sending messages back to Israel via a radio whose antenna was disguised as a clothesline. ![]() Intended to gather intelligence and carry out sabotage and assassinations, the unit consisted of Jews who were native to the Arab world and could thus easily assume Arab identities. The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, conceived during World War II by British spies and Jewish militia leaders in Palestine. Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff-but it's all true. ![]()
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5/9/2023 0 Comments Mahatma gandhi full name![]() ![]() ![]() Aboutįather of Nation, popular as " Mahatma Gandhi," originally known as Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi was a leader, lawyer, and a great social activist. Popular names & nicknames- Bapu, Mahatma Gandhi, father of the nation, etc. Occupation- Leader, Social activist, and lawyerĬhildren name- Harilal Gandhi, Manilal Gandhi, Ramdas & Devdas Gandhi Parent's name- Karam Chand Uttam Chand Gandhi and Putli bai Next → ← prev Mahatma Gandhi Brief Intro:įull name- Mohan Das Karam Chandra Gandhiīirth Date & place- 2 October 1869 in the Kathiawar Peninsula village in Porbandar, Gujaratĭeath date & place- 30th January 1948, Central Delhi (in Birla house) ![]() ![]() ![]() It chronicles interwoven lives in Venice in the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the La Fenice opera house. John Cusack plays a character loosely based on Berendt in the movie Jim Williams is portrayed by Kevin Spacey.īerendt’s second book, The City of Falling Angels, was published in September 2005. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was adapted into a 1997 film, directed by Clint Eastwood. Berendt has since acknowledged that he fabricated some scenes and changed the sequence of some events. Virtually seeming like a novel and reading like a tale, the non-fictional story is about the real-life events surrounding the multiple murder trials of antiques dealer Jim Williams in Savannah, Georgia. ![]() ![]() The story, unsettling and real, broke down the idea of the quintessential phenomenon of a true American city, only to reveal its quirks: its man walking an invisible dog its voice of the drag queen a high-society man in its elite community – all that somehow, unravels a murder mystery. John Berendt (born Syracuse, NY, USA, December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.īerendt published Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in 1994 and it became an overnight success: the book spent a record-breaking 216 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list – to this day, the longest standing best seller of the Times. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Bronze horseman trilogy order![]() The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga Yet Alexander is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin’s death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again. ![]() Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution, and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. For Tatiana, love arrives in the guise of Alexander, who harbours a deadly and extraordinary secret. As the German armies advance their future looks bleak. ![]() I am going to post the synopsis of all three books here.ĭuring the summer of 1941 the Metanov family are living a hard life in Leningrad. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Post office bukowski amazon![]() ![]() I know, from the documentaries, he was a bum, a drunk and a jerk, and I accept that since he seemed to have. He spent, as most writer’s do, a career in obscurity, but late in his life, to his surprise, and many others fame came his way. Much like Henry Miller’s non-fiction, Bukowski believed that, even as a drunk, if he were honest and treated his thoughts like a craftsman would, he’d be a rare voice in the literary world. ![]() ![]() He seemed like a terrible person in many ways but there was something oddly refreshing about how little he tried to hide it. There were no grand flourishes or overwrought metaphors. Unlike the majority of writers he wasn’t primarily interested in impressing anyone. He gave me Post Office, about Bukowski’s drunken Kakfaesque experiences as as poet working with mail. It was my friend Rich Grudman who first told me to read Bukowski. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Helen macdonald goshawk![]() ![]() And then I saw it wasn’t a man, but a goshawk. ![]() A man in a long overcoat leaning slightly to one side. That’s what my brain told me, momentarily. And that is when I thought I saw a man standing in a tree. ![]() After a mile or so, I found myself in an open clearing and looked up. My feet crunched on salt-crusted mud and across leaf litter sparking with grasshoppers and sinuous silver lizards. Once we’d pitched our tents, I went for a stroll in the hot, blank forest sunlight. I’d driven with a group of other fieldworkers in a Russian jeep down to the banks of the Syrdarya river in Andijan province. I t was the autumn of 2006 in Uzbekistan, a few months before my father died. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Franklin the autobiography![]() ![]() ![]() For more than 60 years after Franklin’s death, this manuscript was in France. ![]() Facsimile.įranklin folded his paper vertically and wrote in only one column, leaving the other column free for later revisions and additions. This text, incomplete and significantly different from what Franklin wrote, was the basis of innumerable cheap American and British editions throughout the nineteenth century, even after Franklin’s grandson finally brought out his own supposedly “authoritative” edition in 1818.Ī page from Franklin’s own manuscript of his Letter to his Son (i.e., the “Autobiography”). That first part went only up to his 25th year, so all Franklin’s early publishers thought of his memoir as a fragment that told a small part of the story, and they added to it a variety of letters and documents to complete the “Life.” Moreover, that unrevised copy of part one was first published in 1791 in Paris in a French translation, and the first English editions of 1793 were translations of the French translation. ![]() The word was not even coined until long after Franklin died, but more significantly, he wrote his autobiography at four different times in his life, and for many years only the first part circulated in print, in a version based on an unauthorized and unrevised copy of his manuscript. There was no such thing as Franklin’s “autobiography” until well into the nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() “UFO in Kushiro” and “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo” both come from 2000’s after the quake, whose six works each concern the aftermath of the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan in a distinct way. Short story collections are carefully curated, and rearranging them can be risky. Komura, the main character in the story “UFO in Kushiro,” thus also lives out the events of “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” and “The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday’s Women.” Katagiri, the lead of “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo,” is his coworker, and now also takes part in “Dabchick.” Komura’s wife Kyoko is reconfigured as the protagonist of “Birthday Girl.” Rather than a simple anthology of vignettes, each inspired by a Murakami story, this narrative combines them into episodes in the lives of three interlinked characters. ![]() The screenplay is a clever act of remixing. The first feature from director Pierre Földes, Blind Willow, Sleeping Womanably captures Murakami’s combination of low-key magical realism, sexual neurosis, and loneliness. Now an animated film takes an omnibus approach, combining half a dozen of his short stories into one hazy, beguiling new tale. ![]() Despite Haruki Murakami’s global popularity, only recently have film adaptations of his work gotten real prominence, with acclaimed movies like Burning (2018) and the Oscar-winning Drive My Car (2021). ![]() ![]() ![]() Syms appeared in a TV play The Romantic Young Lady. She made her West End debut in The Apple Cart with Noël Coward. Syms's career began in repertory theatre in Eastbourne and Bath. Syms was educated at convent schools before deciding to become an actress and attending The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1954. At 16, she suffered a nervous breakdown and contemplated taking her own life until an intervention from her stepmother. When Syms was 12, her mother committed suicide. With the outbreak of World War II, Syms was evacuated to Kent and subsequently Monmouthshire. ![]() Syms was born in Woolwich, London, England, in 1934, the daughter of Daisy ( née Hale) and Edwin Syms, a trade unionist and civil servant. Syms portrayed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in the 2006 biopic The Queen. On television, she was known for her recurring role as dressmaker Olive Woodhouse on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Known as the "Grand Dame of British Cinema", Syms was a major player in films from the mid-1950s until mid-1960s, usually in stiff-upper-lip English pictures, as opposed to kitchen sink realism dramas, before becoming more of a supporting actress in both film and television roles. ![]() Her best-known film roles include My Teenage Daughter (1956), Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award, Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), and The Tamarind Seed (1974). Sylvia May Laura Syms OBE (6 January 1934 – 27 January 2023) was an English stage and screen actress. ![]() ![]() ![]() Attrition and ineffective recruitment had left most of the Continental regiments dangerously weak, and the rising pace of officer resignations made apparent the need for an equitable pay and pensionary establishment. The American army was badly in need of reform. ![]() Most of the fighting that characterized the bloody year of 1777 had drawn to a close by Christmas, and although British foraging and raiding parties ventured out of Philadelphia from time to time, Washington's priority was no longer to fight General William Howe but to preserve his own army and prepare it for the next campaign. The volume begins with Washington's soldiers hard at work erecting log huts to the general's specifications and building a bridge over the Schuylkill River under the direction of Major General John Sullivan. Volume 13 of the "Revolutionary War Series" documents a crucial portion of the winter encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, when the fate of Washington's army hung in the balance. ![]() |