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A Huckster: 50 Years on the Roads of Europe and Elsewhere

A Huckster: 50 Years on the Roads of Europe and Elsewhere


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This is a memoir of one man's work, covering over 50 years (1950-2000) in 16 countries of East and West Europe, plus the USA and the Middle East; including the critical periods of the Cold War behind the Iron Curtain, in East Germany, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and in particular, Czechoslovakia. More than 50,000 miles by car and 20,000 by air were covered each year in one 10-year period, and about one and three-quarter million miles overall. Various characters are recognizable to those of good memory. Greville Wynn, a drinking partner and British spy in Budapest, whom the KGB collared on November 2nd 1962 and locked up in the Moscow Lubianka prison next day. Later he was exchanged for the Russian spy Gordon Londsdale doing 20 years in London. Wynn had a hard time and his control, Colonel Penkovsky, was shot. In July 1961 the author met Sidney Stanley in the bar of the Dan Hotel, Tel Aviv. He was the Polish businessman who, in 1948, nearly brought down the Attlee government on corruption grounds. Several labour ministers had a hard time under questioning by the Lynskey Tribunal. Life as lived in the UK in the 40`s,50`s,60`s are revealing.The chapters on the USA are hilarious,and in Czechoslovakia sad. It is a book equally about work,travel,history and politics

Table of Contents:
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS. CHAP. 3 1953 SPAIN IN FRANCO'S DAY: A BULLFIGHT. CHAP. 6 1956 SWITZERLAND: ON DRIVING DOWN A MOUNTAIN PASS BACKWARDS. CHAP. 6 1961 ITALY: A SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN MILAN. CHAP. 7 1962 GERMANY: ORANGES IN LEIPZIG. 1978 LUNCH WITH THE AMBASSADOR. CHAP. 9 1964 USA: UNPLANNED 2 HR. LECTURE TO 100 MURDERERS. OBSERVER AND NEAR PARTICIPANT IN POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CORRUPTION. CHAP.10 1956 HUNGARY: IN WEST BUDAPEST AS RUSSIANS INVADE FROM THE EAST. 1962 DRINKS IN BUDAPEST WITH A BRITISH SPY BEFORE THE RUSSIANS COLLARED HIM. 1990 FINDING A HANGED MAN'S GRAVE. CHAP.11 1958 CZECHOSLOVAKIA. IRON CURTAIN BORDER AND THE GAMES THEY FLAY. 1968 AUGUST 21ST - PRAGUE WHEN RUSSIAN TANKS INVADE WENCESLAS SQUARE.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780954677305
  • Publisher: Arthur Woods
  • Publisher Imprint: Arthur Woods
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0954677307
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Sub Title: 50 Years on the Roads of Europe and Elsewhere


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