The Good War of Consul Reeves - Tapa blanda

Rose, Peter

 
9789887674870: The Good War of Consul Reeves
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ISBN 10: 9887674877 ISBN 13: 9789887674870
Editorial: Blacksmith Books, 2024

Sinopsis

Months before the start of the Pacific War in 1941, John Reeves – his career and marriage failing – is posted as British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao in southern China.

The Japanese soon declare war on the West with their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. But because Portugal is neutral, Macao is left alone and becomes a tiny island of neutrality, an Asian Casablanca surrounded by Japanese-occupied China.

Reeves, a lonely and awkward man, finds himself the only senior representative of the Allies within a radius of thousands of miles. He runs spy rings, collects intelligence, smuggles people to freedom, takes care of refugees and is threatened with assassination – and The Good War of Consul Reeves tells his story.

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Acerca del autor

Peter Rose is a graduate of the George Washington University and the Yale Law School. He first practised law in Washington DC. It was during a posting in Hong Kong with Goldman Sachs as its Asian Head of Public Affairs that he started to visit Macao – an hour’s ferry-ride across the Pearl River delta from Hong Kong – and became fascinated with the story of this incongruous piece of Portugal on the edge of China.

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Editorial
Blacksmith Books
Año de publicación
2024
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
9887674877
ISBN 13 
9789887674870
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Número de páginas
334
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