Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was considered one of the masters of the thriller novel involving international intrigue and espionage. Of the six novels he wrote before World War II, four have been adjudged ...
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Eric Clifford Ambler was born in southeast London. His father, Alfred Percy Ambler, and his mother, Amy Madeleine Andrews, were music hall entertainers. Under their professional names, Amy and Reg Amb...
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Oct 16 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on October 23 since 1900: 1911 - The first use of an aircraft during a war took place
during the Italo-Turkish war when a...
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TREE OF SMOKEBy Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 614 pages, $27
Tree of Smoke will surely be hailed as a great novel of the Vietnam War, which it is—but more than that it...
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Throughout his elegant and compact sequence of espionage novels set in the Europe of the 1930’s and 40’s—The Foreign Correspondent is the ninth—Alan Furst has been trying to...
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Throughout his elegant and compact sequence of espionage novels set in the Europe of the 1930’s and 40’s— The Foreign Correspondent is the ninth—Alan Furst has been trying t...
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I know that my recent near-arrest in front of C.I.A. headquarters will not go down as one of the landmark events in the history of espionage. Certainly it pales into insignificance next to recent d...
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I know that my recent near-arrest in front of C.I.A. headquarters will not go down as one of the landmark events in the history of espionage. Certainly it pales into insignificance next to recent d...
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Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler
Reuters historical calendar - October 23
