Author: Harry Heintzen
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1452011737
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. and heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the Cold War between Finland and the Soviet Union, for which he is denounced in Pravda. He finds himself writing for a journalistic giant, The New York Herald-Tribune, but which pays a pittance for his stories. He covers events in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, meeting such people as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a Norwegian war hero, a singer/movie actress, a Prime Minister and a host of other interesting characters. He also meets and marries the girl of his dreams. Then, just as his money is about to run out, he unexpectedly wins a prestigious and lucrative journalism award that brings him back to the U. S. and recognition as a full-ledged foreign correspondent. Told in letters and rememberances, it is a story of suceeding against the odds in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Author: Harry Heintzen
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1452011737
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. and heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the Cold War between Finland and the Soviet Union, for which he is denounced in Pravda. He finds himself writing for a journalistic giant, The New York Herald-Tribune, but which pays a pittance for his stories. He covers events in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, meeting such people as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a Norwegian war hero, a singer/movie actress, a Prime Minister and a host of other interesting characters. He also meets and marries the girl of his dreams. Then, just as his money is about to run out, he unexpectedly wins a prestigious and lucrative journalism award that brings him back to the U. S. and recognition as a full-ledged foreign correspondent. Told in letters and rememberances, it is a story of suceeding against the odds in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1452011737
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. and heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the Cold War between Finland and the Soviet Union, for which he is denounced in Pravda. He finds himself writing for a journalistic giant, The New York Herald-Tribune, but which pays a pittance for his stories. He covers events in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, meeting such people as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a Norwegian war hero, a singer/movie actress, a Prime Minister and a host of other interesting characters. He also meets and marries the girl of his dreams. Then, just as his money is about to run out, he unexpectedly wins a prestigious and lucrative journalism award that brings him back to the U. S. and recognition as a full-ledged foreign correspondent. Told in letters and rememberances, it is a story of suceeding against the odds in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
Shadow Cold War
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469625188
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
"Jeremy Friedman's SHADOW COLD WAR examines the battle for political and ideological influence in the newly emerging states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America between China and the Soviet Union from 1956 to 1976. Though both nations espoused Marxism/Leninism, Friedman argues that the Russian and Chinese revolutions were actually the products of two different agendas: anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism, respectively. Those ideological differences fostered different domestic and international policies, a harbinger of the political fissure to come"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469625188
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
"Jeremy Friedman's SHADOW COLD WAR examines the battle for political and ideological influence in the newly emerging states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America between China and the Soviet Union from 1956 to 1976. Though both nations espoused Marxism/Leninism, Friedman argues that the Russian and Chinese revolutions were actually the products of two different agendas: anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism, respectively. Those ideological differences fostered different domestic and international policies, a harbinger of the political fissure to come"--Provided by publisher.
The Land of the Midnight Sun
Author: Paul Belloni Du Chaillu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
From the Shadows
Author: Robert Michael Gates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The former director of the CIA discusses the hidden wars that the U.S. waged against communism.
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The former director of the CIA discusses the hidden wars that the U.S. waged against communism.
The Chautauquan
Shadow Flights
Author: Curtis Peebles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Recounts the early years of the Cold War when the U.S. sought to learn USSR military strength through border flights and overflights by the famed U-2 spyplanes.
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ISBN:
Category : Air warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Recounts the early years of the Cold War when the U.S. sought to learn USSR military strength through border flights and overflights by the famed U-2 spyplanes.
The land of the midnight sun: Summer and winter journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland
Author: Paul Bellom Du Chaillu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
British Journal of Nursing
The British Journal of Nursing with which is Incorporated the Nursing Record ...
P.J. & A.E. Dobell Book Sale Catalogs
Author: P.J. & A.E. Dobell (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description