Dialogue with Death: The Journal Of A Prisoner Of The Fascists In The Spanish Civil War - Couverture souple

Koestler, Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226449610 ISBN 13 : 9780226449616

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2011

Synopsis

Dialogue with Death In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Malaga. He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death--only to be released three months later under pressure from the British government. Out of this experience, Koestler wrote "Darkness at Noon," his most acclaimed work in the United States, about a man arrested and executed in a Communist prison. "Dialogue with Death" is Koestler's riveting account of the fall of Malaga to rebel forces, his surreal arrest, and his three months facing death from a prison cell. Despite the harrowing circumstance...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0226449610
• ISBN 13: 9780226449616
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232