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  1. Neutral ground
    a political history of espionage fiction
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Algora Pub., New York

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780875865355
    Subjects: Geschichte; Spy stories, English; Spy stories, American; Politics and literature; Politics and literature; World politics in literature; Espionage in literature; Spies in literature
    Scope: xii, 168 p
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-161) and index

    The roots of espionage fiction -- Evolution of the genre -- World War I : empire and espionage -- The interwar years : toward a darker morality -- Post-world War II : reality, conspiracy, and plot development -- The Cold War era : refinement of the genre -- Beyond the Berlin Wall : variations on the theme

  2. Neutral ground
    a political history of espionage fiction
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Algora Pub., New York

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0875865356; 9780875865355
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Geschichte; Spy stories, English; Spy stories, American; Politics and literature; Politics and literature; World politics in literature; Espionage in literature; Spies in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 168 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-161) and index

    The roots of espionage fiction -- Evolution of the genre -- World War I : empire and espionage -- The interwar years : toward a darker morality -- Post-world War II : reality, conspiracy, and plot development -- The Cold War era : refinement of the genre -- Beyond the Berlin Wall : variations on the theme

    Neutral Ground: A Political History of Espionage Fiction takes the reader behind the fiction and explores the real-world political, military, and diplomatic events that have consistently and significantly threaded their way through the fabric of the genre. Against this historical timeline, it examines how numerous authors including Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré have engaged reality in order to write the espionage novels that have become literary classics and, in selected cases, have also served to alter the course of government policy. --From publisher's description

  3. Neutral ground
    a political history of espionage fiction
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Algora Pub, New York, NY

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
    a ang 295.6 spi/400
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2007 A 14640
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780875865331; 9780875865348; 9780875865355
    Subjects: Spy stories, English; Spy stories, American; Politics and literature; Politics and literature; World politics in literature; Espionage in literature; Spies in literature; Spionage; Englisch; USA; Politik und Literatur
    Scope: xii, 168 p
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    The roots of espionage fiction -- Evolution of the genre -- World War I : empire and espionage -- The interwar years : toward a darker morality -- Post-world War II : reality, conspiracy, and plot development -- The Cold War era : refinement of the genre -- Beyond the Berlin Wall : variations on the theme

  4. Neutral ground
    a political history of espionage fiction
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Algora Pub, New York

    This unique and perceptive history unravels geopolitical intrigues and reveals how they have influenced the authors who fashioned one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world the spy novel. Espionage fiction is one of the most... more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Online-Ressource
    No inter-library loan

     

    This unique and perceptive history unravels geopolitical intrigues and reveals how they have influenced the authors who fashioned one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world the spy novel. Espionage fiction is one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world and, since its widespread acceptance in the early twentieth century, it has sought to pursue the secret politics of Western social order. Drawn from reality, exposing what is generally concealed, it provides a unique glimpse into the darker, more conspiratorial affairs of state through the use o

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780875865331; 9780875865348
    Subjects: World politics in literature; Espionage in literature; Spies in literature; Politics and literature; Politics and literature; Spy stories, American; Spy stories, English
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xii, 168 p), 23 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-161) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    The roots of espionage fiction -- Evolution of the genre -- World War I : empire and espionage -- The interwar years : toward a darker morality -- Post-world War II : reality, conspiracy, and plot development -- The Cold War era : refinement of the genre -- Beyond the Berlin Wall : variations on the theme.