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278 pages : 24 cm "By 1938, hundreds of Italian intellectuals, lawyers and journalists, university professors and scientists, had escaped Mussolini's fascist government and taken refuge in Paris. There, amid the struggles of emigre life, they founded and Italian resistance, with and underground press that smuggled news and encouragement back to Italy. Fighting fascism with typewriters, they produced 512 clandestine newspapers. The Foreign Correspondent is their story." "Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel. But this is no romantic tragedy - it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and is meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine emigre newspaper. Carlo Weisz, who has fled from Trieste and secured a job as a foreign correspondent with the Reuters bureau, becomes the new editor." "Weisz is, at that moment, in Spain, reporting on the last campaign of the Spanish civil war. But as soon as he returns to Paris, he is pursued by the French Surete, by agents of the OVRA, and by officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service. In the desperate politics of Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is

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Author

Furst, Alan

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780297848301

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.87 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13