Champagne and meatballs : adventures of a Canadian communist /
Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984.
Champagne and meatballs : adventures of a Canadian communist / Bert Whyte ; edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant. - Edmonton : AU Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource - Working Canadians : books from the CCLH, 1925-184X . - Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.) .
Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca. "Canadian Committee on Labour History."
Includes bibliographical endnotes and index.
Early years -- The 1930s -- The war -- Postwar years -- Letters from China, with a foreward by Monica Whyte -- Appendix.
"Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs -- a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984 -- we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and camaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye -- the left one, of course."--Publisher's description
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85433027-DB21-46C5-AD3C-E2380036A328 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2010674361
(AMICUS)000038780280
Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984.
Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984.
Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984
Communist Party of Canada--Biography.
Parti communiste canadien--Biographies.
Communist Party of Canada
Communists--Canada--Biography.
Journalists--Canada--Biography.
Soldiers--Canada--Biography.
Military biography--Canada.
Communistes--Canada--Biographies.
Journalistes--Canada--Biographies.
Militaires--Canada--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Communism & Socialism.
Communists
Journalists
Soldiers
Canada
Electronic books.
Biographies
HX104.7.W49 / A3 2011eb
335.43092
Champagne and meatballs : adventures of a Canadian communist / Bert Whyte ; edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant. - Edmonton : AU Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource - Working Canadians : books from the CCLH, 1925-184X . - Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.) .
Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca. "Canadian Committee on Labour History."
Includes bibliographical endnotes and index.
Early years -- The 1930s -- The war -- Postwar years -- Letters from China, with a foreward by Monica Whyte -- Appendix.
"Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs -- a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984 -- we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and camaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye -- the left one, of course."--Publisher's description
9781926836096 192683609X 9781459340268 1459340264 9781926836348 1926836340 128297789X 9781282977891
85433027-DB21-46C5-AD3C-E2380036A328 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2010674361
(AMICUS)000038780280
Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984.
Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984.
Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984
Communist Party of Canada--Biography.
Parti communiste canadien--Biographies.
Communist Party of Canada
Communists--Canada--Biography.
Journalists--Canada--Biography.
Soldiers--Canada--Biography.
Military biography--Canada.
Communistes--Canada--Biographies.
Journalistes--Canada--Biographies.
Militaires--Canada--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Communism & Socialism.
Communists
Journalists
Soldiers
Canada
Electronic books.
Biographies
HX104.7.W49 / A3 2011eb
335.43092