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Dorothy the Brave
by Meghan P. BrowneThe empowering story of a real-life Rosie the Riveter who served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot.Dorothy Lucas yearned to discover all that she was capable of. After the devastating news of Pearl Harbor, her brothers joined the World War II war effort, but Dorothy wanted to do her part, too. So, she enlisted to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP). After hours of flight school and roaring engines, Dorothy and her fellow WASPs risked their lives towing targets in the air for the male fighter pilots in training. Through many mechanical scares and smoke-filled cockpits, Dorothy remained brave and committed to her job--defying gravity and defying the odds. With lyrical text from Meghan P. Browne and striking illustrations by Brooke Smart, Dorothy the Brave tells an untold story of a real-life Rosie the Riveter, and how women worked to keep America safe during a harrowing time.
Doré's Illustrations for "Idylls of the King"
by Gustave DoréLike his contemporary, the English poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Gustave Doré (1832-83) was highly regarded for his mastery of technique. One of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late nineteenth century, he provided a wealth of hauntingly beautiful illustrations for the first four parts of Idylls of the King, Tennyson's classic poetic treatment of the Arthurian legends. This volume contains meticulous reproductions of all 36 plates from rare English editions published in 1867-69.Like many of his other works, Doré's illustrations for the Idylls possess great drama, detail, and power, overlaid with a melancholy, otherworldly mood. His masterly technique is abundantly evident in splendid, idealized scenes illustrating the romantic involvements of four lovely ladies: "the fair Elaine," much enamored of Lancelot; Guinevere, Arthur's perfidious queen; Enid, the wife of Geraint, one of Arthur's knights; and the "wily Vivien," a scheming beauty who attempts to seduce the wizard Merlin.Accompanied by synopses and appropriate quotations from Tennyson's poem, Doré's illustrations bring these marvelous legends to vivid life.
Doré's Illustrations of the Crusades
by Gustave DoréLong regarded as the standard history of the subject, François Michaud's History of the Crusades, published in 1877, recorded over four centuries of passionate, bloody wars that brought the countries -- and cultures -- of Asia and Europe into conflict with one another. To illustrate Michaud's classic study, Gustave Doré executed 100 striking plates, capturing all the savagery, nobility, and vast sweep of the centuries-long conflict.This splendid collection includes all 100 of the Doré illustrations, including scenes of Peter the Hermit Preaching the Crusade, The War Cry of the Crusaders, The Massacre of Antioch, The Road to Jerusalem, The Crusade of Children, The Discovery of the True Cross, The Baptism of Infidels, Two Hundred Knights Attack Twenty Thousand Saracens, Richard Coeur de Lion Delivering Jaffa, The Battle of Lepanto, Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, and many more. Masterly in their combination of power, vivid detail, and striking visual effects, the plates are perhaps the finest pictorial recreation of the immense clash of cultures and religions underlying the great historical drama of the Crusades.Sure to delight any lover of fine art or magnificent book illustrations, Doré's Illustrations of the Crusades, with descriptive captions and a concise chronology of the principal events, will also serve as an invaluable source of striking royalty-free illustrations.
Doré's Knights and Medieval Adventure
by Gustave Doré Jeff A. MengesThe exuberant art of Gustave Doré (1832-83) has influenced romantics and realists around the world. A self-taught child prodigy who met with early and resounding success, Doré ranks among the most prolific and popular illustrators of all time. Known as "the master of the fantastic," he excelled in conveying dramatic action in memorable settings. This original collection assembles for the first time Doré's best work depicting knights and their adventures. It features eighty-six captivating scenes of battles, damsels, dragons, and other images from the Age of Chivalry.Advances in science and technology introduced irrevocable changes to the society of Doré and his contemporaries and aroused a nostalgia for simpler times. The moral certitude and stability embodied in Arthurian myths and other medieval romances proved as appealing to Victorians as they do to modern audiences. This collection features highlights from eight volumes that span more than two decades of Doré's career, including scenes from Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Other sources include Don Quixote, Orlando Furioso, Rabelais' The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, and Michaud's History of the Crusades.
Doré's London: All 180 Illustrations from London, A Pilgrimage
by Gustave DoréLondon in the middle of the 1800s was a subject sketched endlessly by artists, studied by social reformers, and discussed by writers. This comprehensive collection of drawings by Gustave Doré, France's most celebrated graphic artist of the period, presents all 180 drawings from the artist's 1872 classic presentation, London, A Pilgrimage.A panoramic portrait of that engrossing city, the collection ranges from images of fashionable ladies riding in a sunlit park to ragged wretches in a shadowy side street. Here are remarkably perceptive sketches of workaday London, busy marketplaces, the Christy Minstrels, a waterman's family, thieves gambling, the Devils' Acre in Westminster, flower girls, waifs and strays, a wedding at the Abbey, provincials in search of lodgings, a garden party, prisoners in the Newgate exercise yard (a scene that so greatly impressed Vincent van Gogh that he copied it in a painting), stalls at Covent Garden Opera House, and many other scenes that capture London of bygone era.Taken from a volume that is widely regarded as the illustrator's greatest single work, the drawings in this collection will delight Doré admirers and anyone fascinated by the many aspects of Victorian London.
Dos chicas de Shanghai
by Lisa SeeEsta historia nos abre una nueva ventana a un mundo asombroso. Cuajada de detalles históricos y maravillosos personajes, Dos chicas de Shanghai es una novela sobre la complejidad de los sentimientos que anidan en el seno de la familia y marcan el destino de las personas. Hacia el año 1937, Shanghai está considerada el París del continente asiático. En la sofisticada y opulenta ciudad, donde conviven mendigos, millonarios, gángsters, jugadores y artistas, la vida sonríe a las hermanas Pearl y May Chin, hijas de un acaudalado hombre de negocios. De temperamentos casi opuestos, las dos son hermosas y jóvenes y, pese a haber sido criadas en el seno de una familia de valores tradicionales, viven con la sola preocupación de asimilar lo que llega de Occidente. Visten a la última moda y posan para los artistas publicitarios, que ven en el retrato de las hermanas la proyección de los sueños de prosperidad de todoun país. Pero cuando la fortuna familiar sufre un golpe irreversible, el futuro de Pearl y May se tiñe de precariedad e incertidumbre. Con los bombardeos japoneses a las puertas de la ciudad, las hermanas iniciarán un largo viaje que las llevará a California, donde su estrecha relación se pondrá a prueba. Sin embargo, a pesar de los celos y la rivalidad, ambas lucharán por permanecer unidas, a la vez que intentarán hallar fuerzas para salir adelante en unas más que difíciles circunstancias. La crítica ha dicho...«Evocadora, mágica, y absolutamente imposible de olvidar.»The Boston Globe «Un triunfo en todos los niveles, una historia hermosa y conmovedora.»The Washington Post Book Review «Una historia arrolladora [...] repleta de meticuloso y complejo detalle.»The New York Times «Fascinante, una sugerente reflexión sobre lo que significa ser humanos.»People «El impecable argumento y los personajes, ricamente dibujados, arrastran al lector de inmediato a lo largo de veinte años de amor, pérdida, desengaños y alegrías.»Publishers Weekly «Este libro de colores intensos explora, sobre todo, las dificultades y recompensas de la solidaridad entre hermanas.»Daily Mail «Un elegante y meticuloso estudio de las vidas de dos hermanas irresistibles.»The Miami Herald «Si buscas una de esas lecturas que te transportan a un mundo exótico y desconocido [...] no hallarás mejor novela.»The Dallas Morning News
Dos en la tormenta (Saga de los Malory #Volumen 12)
by Johanna LindseyUna nueva entrega de la saga romántica histórica «Los Malory». Una historia de amor apasionada con sabor a Piratas del Caribe cuyos protagonistas harán las delicias de las lectoras de Johanna Lindsey. Por primera vez, James Malory y sus parientes políticos, los Anderson, están de acuerdo en algo: es hora de que el hombre que raptó a Jack, la amada hija de James y Georgina, reciba su merecido. El secuestro tuvo lugar durante la presentación en sociedad de Jacqueline y aunque la joven salió ilesa del rapto que la condujo hasta el Caribe, James ha averiguado quién dirigió la acción y ha reunido una flota de barcos que pondrá rumbo hacia las Indias occidentales para vengarse al más puro estilo Malory. Por su parte, Jack, más interesada en vengarse que en encontrar un marido durante su primera temporada en Londres, está tremendamente furiosa con su padre por no haberla llevado con él. De pronto, a través de un desconocido,consigue contactar con su raptor. Acompañada por su hermano Jeremy, acaban en un barco que zarpa de las costas inglesas y a bordo, Jack descubrirá que se encuentra en manos de un pirata fuera de lo común, un hombre noble que quizás no tenga una gota de sangre pirata en sus venas, sino un poderoso deseo de saldar cuentas con algunos hechos del pasado relacionados con la época en la que el padre de Jack se hacía llamar Capitán Hawk. Pronto, el mayor peligro para Jacqueline y para su misterioso pirata será la atracción que sienten el uno por el otro. La crítica ha dicho...«Dos en la tormenta colma las expectativas que acompañan cada nueva novela de "Los Malory". Esta historia me ha recordado gratamente las razones por las que en mi adolescencia disfruté tanto leyendo las peripecias de esta familia.»Romance Junkies «Leer a Lindsey es una experiencia única. Los diálogos vívidos y chispeantes, los agudos intercambios entre elhéroe y la heroína, y la tensión sexual creciente brindan a las lectoras la certeza de que están ante una novela deliciosa de principio a fin.»Romantic Times «La pluma de Lindsey es magnífica y cautivadora, y sus novelas son tan ágiles como deliciosas.»Fresh Fiction «La pluma de Lindsey combina el ingenio con personajes encantadores y únicos, además de una sensual historia de amor.»Booklist «Los Malory son la familia que todos desearíamos tener, así que volver a entrar su mundo es como entrar un poquito en el cielo. La manera en la que Lindsey escribe una seductora batalla de deseos encontrados y una historia de amor es mágica; amor, risas, aventura y pasión se combinan mientras la rivalidad de la infancia se transforma en amor.»RT Book Reviews
Dos extraños y un destino (Serie Elizabethtown #Volumen 2)
by Mariam OrazalAmbos creían tener la vida que habían elegido. El destino les tenía preparado algo muy distinto. Movida por un profundo sentido del honor, Caroline Queen viaja desde su Inglaterra natal a América donde espera rescatar a la persona que puede salvar a su familia. No puede imaginar que una cadena de infortunios la aguarda allí y que solo logrará superarlos si confía su seguridad al apuesto ranchero que provoca en ella sensaciones desconocidas y parece descifrar hasta sus más secretos anhelos. Russell Norton lo tiene todo bajo control. Una vida sencilla, el rancho de sus sueños y, algún día, una esposa serena y humilde que alivie el peso de sus hombros. Caroline Queen no encaja en absoluto con ese molde, pero el exsoldado no puede evitar el deseo y la dulzura que ella le despierta. Mientras atraviesan en tren el inhóspito, salvaje y hermoso continente, la intimidad se volverá tan poderosa que ninguno de ellos podrá escapar de ella.
Dos semanas cinco presidentes: Diciembre de 2001: la historia secreta
by Damián NabotEl libro impresindible para entender la crisis de 2001 Dos semanas, cinco presidentes es la crónica alucinada de los sucesos que conmovieron los cimientos de la política argentina, o mejor dicho, de un modo de hacer política en la Argentina. Cuando la sociedad -en una infrecuente y fugaz alianza de clases- dijo basta y exigió que se fueran todos, se desencadenó una tempestad que consumió cinco presidentes en dos semanas: Fernando de la Rúa, Ramón Puerta, Eduardo Camaño, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá y Eduardo Duhalde. Damián Nabot, que trabajaba como periodista acreditado en la Cámara Baja, fue testigo de todo: la soberbia, el pánico, la mezquindad, la traición de algunos políticos, el altruismo de otros. Con casi todos los protagonistas directos de los acontecimientos habló en aquellos días, y también años después -con la distancia crítica necesaria-, cuando decidió escribir su libro. El resultado de esas conversaciones es esta obra, suma de las escenas íntimas, secretas, que se urdían a espaldas del país en llamas: diálogos imposibles, cálculo, rosca, concesiones, exigencias, apoyos interesados, egoísmo, miserias del poder político de la Argentina expuestas en carne viva, como registradas por una cámara oculta. El vértigo y la justeza narrativas, la intensidad de los diálogos, la riqueza de las descripciones demuestran que Dos semanas, cinco presidentes ha superado con creces el desafío de narrar aquellos días que grabaron su impronta en la política argentina.
Dos vidas. Gertrude y Alice
by Janet Malcolm¿Cómo lograron sobrevivir dos lesbianas judías en la Francia de Vichy durante la II Guerra Mundial? La historia de Gertrude Stein y Alice B. Toklas. En esta ocasión, la renombrada ensayista norteamericana Janet Malcom aborda la historia de la legendaria pareja de lesbianas expatriadas en Francia durante la II Guerra Mundial y de la tremenda imfluencia que Gertrude Stein y Alice B. Toklas ejercieron sobre la obra de grandes escritores como Hemingway, Ezra Pound y Faulkner. En el trabajo de Janet Malcolm, el biógrafo se convierte en un personaje más del libro y el proceso de escribir una biografía, de acumular hechos y documentación, se introduce en la narración como una historia más. El resultado: un relato brillante sobre una época, y una reflexión afilada sobre los mecanismos últimos del género biográfico.
Doscientos años pensando la revolución de mayo
by Jorge Gelman Raúl FradkinUn recorrido por los textos dedicados a La Revolución de Mayo de 1810,consagrada como el hecho fundante de la Nación Argentina. Miles de páginas se han dedicado a La Revolución de Mayo de 1810, desdelos propios contemporáneos a los hechos hasta historiadores delpresente. Recorrer esos textos implica asomarse al desarrollo de unproceso que cambió el curso de nuestra historia, pero también a lasmúltiples maneras en que ese proceso fue pensado porsucesivas generaciones desde perspectivas muy distintas. De esta manera,la Revolución de Mayo no fue solo lo que sucedió sino lo que diversascamadas de intelectuales hicieron con lo que pensaban que habíasucedido. El objetivo de este libro, por lo tanto, no es contar "lahistoria" de aquel acontecimiento trascendental, sino justamenteintentar dar cuenta de ese largo trayecto interpretativo, aportando porun lado un análisis acerca de quiénes fueron los principales autores ysus diagnósticos, pero también -y sobre todo- poniendo a disposición dellector una amplia selección de fragmentos de las obras que consideramosrepresentativas de esas opiniones, para que tenga a mano una parte delos originales sobre los que trabajamos.
Dostoevsky Portrayed by his Wife: The Diary and Reminiscences of Mme. Dostoevsky
by Anna Gregorevna Dostoevsky S. S. KotelianskyFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky’s literary works explored human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engaged with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. He became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers, including Russians like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, as well as philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.This book, first published in its present form in 1926, contains portions of the Diary of Dostoevsky’s second wife, Anna Dostoevsky, the rough notes of her Reminiscences, and copies of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s letters to her from 1866 to 1881. All of these, in her own handwriting, were found in August 1922 and delivered by the representative of the Commissar of Education in Georgia (in the Caucasus) to the directors of the Moscow Archives, and serve to provide a clear portrait of Dostoevsky’s wife during the last fourteen years of his life.“Mme. Dostoevsky, with her practical mind, abounding energy, indomitable will and capacity for seeing things through when once a decision was made, is here revealed as the true complement of Dostoevsky, who was rather incompetent in practical affairs.”—Prefatory NoteThe book is also beautifully illustrated with 4 full-page plates.
Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity
by Katherine Bowers and Kate HollandMarking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky’s birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer’s art – specifically the tension between experience and formal representation – as its central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevsky’s works are concerned with spiritual and philosophical dilemmas, this volume focuses instead on questions of design and narrative to explore Dostoevsky and the novel from a multitude of perspectives. Contributors situate Dostoevsky’s formal choices of narrative, plot, genre, characterization, and the novel itself within modernity and consider how the experience of modernity led to Dostoevsky’s particular engagement with form. Conceived as a forum for younger scholars working in new directions in Dostoevsky scholarship, this volume asks how narrative and genre shape Dostoevsky’s works, as well as how they influence the way modernity is represented. Of interest not only to readers and scholars of Russian literature but also to those curious about the genre of the novel more broadly, Dostoevsky at 200 is pathbreaking in its approach to the question of Dostoevsky’s contribution to the novel as a form.
Dostoevsky, Grigor'ev, and Native Soil Conservatism
by Wayne DowlerNative soil was a mid-nineteenth-century Russian reaction against materialism and positivism. It emphasized the need for people to live their lives and develop themselves naturally, so that class difference might be reconciled, the achievements of the West fused with the communalism and Christian fraternity preserved by the Russian peasant, and the Russian nation united in the pursuit of common moral ideals. The metaphor 'Russia and the West' summarized much of the intellectual and political debate of the period: how Russia should use its indigenous and its 'borrowed' cultural elements to solve the political, economic, and social problems of a difficult period. Professor Dowler presents a detailed study of Native Soil conservatism from about 1850 to 1880 – its various intellectual facets, its leading thinkers, and its growth and gradual disintegration. In this utopian movement, literary creativity, aesthetics, and education took on special significance for human spiritual and social development. Dowler therefore examines the writings of two of the most gifted exponents of Native Soil – F.M. Dostoevsky and A.A. Grigor'ev – and looks at their circle and the journals to which they contributed in an assessment of their responses to the challenges of the period of Emancipation.
Dostoevsky: A Collection of Critical Essays
by René WellekFirst published in 1962, the present volume is a collection of critical essays on selected works by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), the famous 19th century Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher.Critical evaluation of Fyodor Dostoevsky has been marked by sharp and violently bitter extremes. René Wellek has assembled a wide spectrum of these varied critical attitudes toward the works of the great Russian “tragedian of ideas.” Dostoevsky’s work is seen from psychoanalytical, existential, theological, and Marxist points of view. Professor Wellek’s introduction sketches the history of Dostoevsky criticism and influence in all main countries—a task never before attempted.The essays in this collection are:PHILIP RAHV—Dostoevsky in Crime and PunishmentMURRAY KRIEGER—Dostoevsky’s “Idiot”: The Curse of SaintlinessIRVING HOWE—Dostoevsky: The Politics of SalvationELISEO VIVAS—The Two Dimensions of Reality in The Brothers KaramazovD. H. LAWRENCE—Preface to Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor”SIGMUND FREUD—Dostoevsky and ParricideGEORG LUKÁCS—DostoevskyDMITRI CHIZHEVSKY—The Theme of the Double in DostoevskyV. V. ZENKOVSKY—Dostoevsky’s Religious and Philosophical ViewsDEREK TRAVERSI—Dostoevsky
Dostoievsky: An Interpretation
by Nicholas Alexandrovitch BerdyaevDOSTOIEVSKY has played a decisive part in my spiritual life. While I was still a youth a slip from him, so to say, was grafted upon me. He stirred and lifted up my soul more than any other writer or philosopher has done, and for me people are always divided into “dostoievskyites” and those to whom his spirit is foreign. It is undoubtedly due to his “cursed questioning” that philosophical problems were present to my consciousness at so early an age, and some new aspect of him is revealed to me every time I read him. The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor, in particular, made such an impression on my young mind that when I turned to Jesus Christ for the first time I saw him under the appearance that he bears in the Legend.At the base of my notion of the world as I see it there has always lain the idea of liberty, and in this fundamental intuition of liberty I found Dostoievsky as it were on his own special ground. Accordingly, I long wanted to devote a book to him but was able to realize my wish only to the extent of a few articles. Finally, the lectures which I delivered on him at the seminar I directed during the winter of 1920-21 determined me to bring together my thoughts on the subject, and so this book came to be written. In it I have not only tried to display Dostoievsky’s own conception of the world, but also to set down a considerable part of what constitutes my own.—Nicholas Alexandrovitch Berdyaev
Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
by Randi ZuckerbergWith Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement since Facebook’s early days and her following six years as a marketing executive for the company. Her part memoir, part how-to manual addresses issues of privacy, online presence, networking, etiquette, and the future of social change.
Double Ace: The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales
by Robert CoramIn Double Ace, veteran biographer Robert Coram, himself a Georgia man, provides readers with an unprecedented look at the defining characteristics that made Robert Lee Scott a uniquely American hero. Robert Lee Scott ("Scotty") was larger than life. A decorated Eagle Scout who barely graduated from high school, the young man from Macon, Georgia, with an oversize personality used dogged determination to achieve his childhood dream of becoming a famed fighter pilot. First capturing national attention during World War II, Scott, a West Point graduate, flew missions in China alongside the legendary "Flying Tigers," where his reckless courage and victories against the enemy made headlines. Upon returning home, Scott's memoir, brashly titled God is My Co-Pilot, became an instant bestseller, a successful film, and one of the most important books of its time. Later in life, as a retired military general, Scott continued to add to his list of accomplishments. He traveled the entire length of China's Great Wall and helped found Georgia's Museum of Aviation, which still welcomes 400,000 annual visitors.Yet Scott's life was not without difficulty. His single-minded pursuit of greatness was offset by debilitating bouts of depression, and his brashness placed him at odds with superior officers, wreaking havoc on his career. What wealth he gained he squandered, and his numerous public affairs destroyed his relationships with his wife and child.Backed by meticulous research, Double Ace brings Scott's uniquely American character to life and captures his fascinating exploits as a national hero alongside his frustrating foibles.
Double Agent
by Peter DuffyThe never-before-told tale of the German-American who spearheaded a covert mission to infiltrate New York's Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II--the most successful counterespionage operation in US history.From the time Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, German spies were active in New York. In 1937, a German national living in Queens stole the blueprints for the country's most precious secret, the Norden Bombsight, delivering them to the German military two years before World War II started in Europe and four years before the US joined the fight. When the FBI uncovered a ring of Nazi spies in the city, President Franklin Roosevelt formally declared J. Edgar Hoover as America's spymaster with responsibility for overseeing all investigations. As war began in Europe in 1939, a naturalized German-American was recruited by the Nazis to set up a radio transmitter and collect messages from spies active in the city to send back to Nazi spymasters in Hamburg. This German-American, William G. Sebold, approached the FBI and became the first double agent in the Bureau's history, the center of a sixteen-month investigation that led to the arrest of a colorful cast of thirty-three enemy agents, among them a South African adventurer with an exotic accent and a monocle and a Jewish femme fatale, Lilly Stein, who escaped Nazi Vienna by offering to seduce US military men into whispering secrets into her ear. A riveting, meticulously researched, and fast-moving story, Double Agent details the largest and most important espionage bust in American history.
Double Agent Balloon: Dickie Metcalfe's Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis
by David TremainDickie Metcalfe was not your typical secret agent, but he was larger than life in more ways than one. Unlike many other agents who were part of the Double Cross System during the Second World War, he did not defect; nor was he blackmailed into becoming a spy. Instead, using his father’s connection with Sir Vernon Kell, the first Director of MI5, Metcalfe volunteered his services. Recently cashiered from his infantry regiment, he had an ulterior motive – by supplying MI5 with tidbits of information about weapons and arms deals in his newfound profession as an arms dealer, he hoped they would be able to help him get his commission reinstated. Metcalfe became BALLOON, a sub-agent of double agent TRICYCLE’s Yugoslav spy ring. Concurrent with his spying activities, he collaborated with the co-inventor of the Bren gun to develop a new submachine gun for British forces. After the war, he was also a celebrated motor racing driver and continued to compete until shortly before his death. His success as a double-cross agent in the eyes of both his masters – British and German – is examined in this book, using official documents as a primary source.
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
by Carolinda WittThis personal biography reveals the incredible true story of the British secret agent who posed as a Nazi spy during WWII. With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited Walter Dicketts, a former officer of the Royal Naval Air Force—and a known con artist—as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extracting crucial secrets. Once there, the Nazis brought Dicketts to Germany, where he had to outwit his interrogators in Hamburg and Berlin before returning to Britain as, in the Nazis&’ eyes, a German spy. Even before he left for Germany, Celery knew that he had been betrayed by a fellow agent. Yet somehow he not only got back to Lisbon, but persuaded a German Intelligence Officer to defect before spending nine months undercover in Brazil. A mixture of hero and crook, Dicketts was smart, worldly and charismatic. Sometimes rich and sometimes poor, his private life was a complicated web of deception. Using both family and official documents, as well as police records, newspaper articles and personal memories, Carolinda Witt—Dicketts&’s granddaughter—unravels the incredible yet true story of Double Agent Celery.
Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (Studies In The Legal History Of The South Ser.)
by Ariela J. GrossIn a groundbreaking study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery, Ariela Gross investigates the local courtrooms of the Deep South where ordinary people settled their disputes over slaves. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care. Double Character seeks to explain how communities dealt with an important dilemma raised by these trials: how could slaves who acted as moral agents be treated as commodities? Because these cases made the character of slaves a central legal question, slaves' moral agency intruded into the courtroom, often challenging the character of slaveholders who saw themselves as honorable masters. Gross looks at the stories about white and black character that witnesses and litigants put forth in court. She not only reveals the role of law in constructing "race" but also offers a portrait of the culture of slavery, one that addresses historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South.Gross maintains that witnesses and litigants drew on narratives available in the culture at large to explain the nature and origins of slaves' character, such as why slaves became runaways. But the legal process also shaped their expressions of racial ideology by favoring certain explanations over others. Double Character brings to life the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, looking at trials from the perspective of litigants, lawyers, doctors, and the slaves themselves. The author's approach combines the methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory.
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by Ben MacintyreFrom the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, and Rogue Heroes, a fascinating work of popular history that vividly recreates the vast web of deception spun by spies in order to conceal D-Day.On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into double agents, tricked the Nazis into believing that the Allied attacks would come in Calais and Norway rather than Normandy. It was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, ensuring Allied victory at the most pivotal moment in the war. This epic event has never before been told from the perspective of the key individuals in the Double Cross system, who together made up one of the oddest and most brilliant military units ever assembled. Until now.
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by Ben MacintyreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The &“superb [and] intensely readable&” (The Washington Post) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary spies who achieved it—from the bestselling author of Prisoners of the Castle &“Not since Ian Fleming and John le Carré has a spy writer so captivated readers.&”—The Hollywood Reporter On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into double agents, tricked the Nazis into believing that the Allied attacks would come in Calais and Norway rather than Normandy. It was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, ensuring Allied victory at the most pivotal moment in the war. This epic event has never before been told from the perspective of the key individuals in the Double Cross system, until now. These include its director (a brilliant, urbane intelligence officer), a colorful assortment of MI5 handlers (as well as their counterparts in Nazi intelligence), and the five spies who formed Double Cross&’s nucleus: a dashing Serbian playboy, a Polish fighter-pilot, a bisexual Peruvian party girl, a deeply eccentric Spaniard, and a volatile Frenchwoman. Together they made up one of the oddest and most brilliant military units ever assembled. With the same depth of research, eye for the absurd, and masterful storytelling that have made Ben Macintyre an international bestseller, Double Cross is a captivating narrative of the spies who wove a web so intricate it ensnared Hitler&’s army and carried thousands of D-Day troops across the Channel in safety.